PHOTO: Mariano Rajoy greets the then Chinese president Hu Jintao in the June 20, 2012.
The Spanish and international press broadly collects the News that the National Court imputes the former president of China Hu Jintao for genocide at Tibet.
We indicate below Some of the sources publish the information »
RTVE.es
The Spanish National Court imputes former President Hu Jintao for genocide at Tibet
También acusa a las autoridades comunistas de organizar "desplazamientos forzosos"
The resolution has been dictated by Judge Angela Murillo
The Criminal Chamber of the National Court has decided to impute the one who was Until last March the president of China, Hu Jintao, as alleged responsible for the genocide perpetrated by the communist government in the Tibet during the years 80 and 90 y ha acusado a las autoridades del país de haber llevado a cabo "campañas masivas de esterilizaciones" y "torturas de disidentes".
"Las autoridades chinas decidieron llevar a cabo a series of actions together to eliminate the idiosyncrasy and existence of the Tibetan country imponiendo la ley marcial", The Fourth Criminal Section indicates the National Court in an order issued on Wednesday and to which Servimedia has had access. Read more
Related Video: Weekly report – Tibet, half a century of occupation
El País.es
The audience reopens the cause against Hu Jintao for the genocide of Tibet
The fourth criminal section admits an appeal for the Tibet Support Committee against the complaint file against the former Chinese president
Judge Ismael Moreno investigates the alleged genocide suffered by the Tibetan people after admitting the complaint presented by the Tibet Support Committee, The Casa del Tibet and Thubten Wangcheg Sherpa Sherpa Foundation against former Chinese president Jiang Zemin and six other communist prison ones in the Tibet or the Chinese government. Read more
The world
The audience imputes the former Chinese president Hu Jintao for genocide at Tibet
The Fourth Section of the Criminal Chamber of the National Court has charged former Chinese President Hu Jintao for the genocide perpetrated in Tibet in recent 50 years considering that his position as secretary general of the Communist Party Committee at Tibet, who played between 1988 and 1992, le confería "la competencia y capacidad orgánica suficientes para dirigir acciones y campañas tendentes a hostigar a la población". Read more
La Vanguardia.com
La Audiencia Nacional imputa al expresidente chino Hu Jintao por "dirigir" Genocide in Tibet
In the case, Investigating Judge Ismael Moreno, Another former president is also charged, Jiang soil, and six more Chinese leaders
Hu Jintao left the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) In November of 2012 And in March this year he left his position as president of the country. Read more.
ABC.es
The audience imputes to former Chinese president Hu Jintao for the genocide of Tibet
Accuses the country's authorities of having carried out «Massive sterilizations campaigns» and «Dissident torture»
«The Chinese authorities decided to carry out a series of actions together to eliminate the idiosyncrasy and existence of the Tibetan country imposing martial law», The Fourth Criminal Section indicates the National Court in an order issued on Wednesday and to which Servimedia has had access. Read more
The newspaper.com
The audience imputes to the former president of China for a crime of genocide against Tibet
It has the testimony of a Spanish citizen who has declared that he was the subject of repression
For the magistrates, Jintao es uno de los mayores responsables del genocidio en el Tíbet por "ser la persona de mayor rango tanto en el partido como en el Gobierno y porque fue jefe del partido para la región del Tíbet". The judges support the arguments of the Tibet Support Committee that claimed this imputation. Read more
Chain ser.com
The National Court imputes for genocide the former Chinese president Hu Jintao
It attends the appeal of the complainants and orders to investigate it for the Tibetan genocide. Cuando Hu Jintao fue jefe del Partido Comunista en Tibet se ejecutaron "esterilizaciones masivas", "torturas a disidentes" y "desplazamientos forzosos"
Los querellantes consideran el expresidente tenía la "competencia y capacidad orgánica para dirigir acciones tendentes a hostigar a la población tibetana"
The room, Composed by magistrates Ángela Murillo, Carmen Paloma González and Juan Francisco Martel, estimates the appeal presented by the Tibet Support Committee, The Casa del Tibet and Thubten Wangchen Sherpa Sherpa Foundation, quienes sostienen que Hu Jintao habría tenido al menos "una parte"… Read more
The public
The National Court imputes the former Chinese president Hu Jintao for genocide at Tibet
Consider that the ex -president, who left office in March, dirigió "acciones y campañas tendentes a hostigar a la población"
El auto describe el genocidio tibetano y asegura que las autoridades chinas llevaron a cabo durante aquellos años acciones destinadas a "eliminar la idiosincrasia y existencia del país" Through the imposition of martial law. Among the usual Chinese practices in Tibet, magistrates describe forced population displacements and"eliminación paulatina de la población autóctona". The fourth precise section, besides, that the investigation fits in the powers of the National Court because one of the victims has Spanish nationality. Agrega que no existe constancia de "que las autoridades chinas hayan iniciado ningún tipo de investigación sobre los hechos objeto de la querella". Read more
Some coverage in English:
BBC.co.uk
Spain probes Hu Jintao 'genocide' in Tibet court case
Spain's top criminal court has decided to hear a case brought by Tibetan rights activists who allege that China's former President Hu Jintao committed genocide in Tibet.
Judges ruled that they were competent to handle the case because one of the activists, Tibetan Monk Thubten Wangchen, is a Spanish citizen. Hu Jintao was the Communist Party leader in Tibet in 1988-1992, when Chinese troops quelled mass protests. China imposed martial law in Tibet. Read more
Time.com
http://world.time.com/2013/10/11/former-chinese-president-charged-with-genocide-in-spanish-court/
Former Chinese President Charged with Genocide in Spanish Court
Tibetan exiles accuse Hu Jintao of committing genocide in Chinese-claimed region
As a former Communist Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Hu Jintao oversaw a crackdown on Tibetan protesters and rioters in 1989. Journalists were expelled from the region and the number of dead remains unknown. Read more
PHAYUL.com
Spanish court indicts Hu in genocide charges
The court argued that the earlier decision had to be overturned because one of the plaintiffs, Thubten Wangchen, is a Spanish citizen and because China had not carried out its own investigation into the allegations.
Courts can hear cases of crimes against humanity wherever they occur outside Spanish territory on the legal principle of universal competence. In 2009, the universality was limited to cases in which Spanish citizens are victims of such crimes. Read more
South China Morning Post
Spanish court indicts China's ex-president Hu Jintao on genocide charges
The court “recognises that this genocide is against the country of Tibet and against the Tibetan nation, and the judges recognise that this indictment of Hu Jintao comes at the precise judicial moment ‘when his diplomatic immunity expires’”, The Madrid-Based Tibet Support Committee, a plaintiff in the case, said in a statement. Read More
Tibetan Political Review
TheCAT – Tibet Support Committee – informs:
"Ex-Chinese president Hu Jintao is indicted for genocide in Tibet.
Meanwhile, Chinese security forces continue repressing the Tibetan people at gunpoint."
In a writ issued on 9 October 2013, Section 4 of the Criminal Court of Spain’s National Court (National Court) ruled in favour of the CAT and decided to indict former Chinese president Hu Jintao for genocide. The court ruling comes after the judge’s earlier rejection on 11 June 2013, with the support of the public prosecution, of the CAT’s request to extend the lawsuit to include the former president. After hearing the appeal on 29 July, in yesterday’s verdict the court now accepts the arguments put forward by the CAT to include Hu Jintao in the list of those accused of GENOCIDE (not “cultural” genocide), with emphasis on all the crimes described in the original lawsuit and the arguments for his indictment put forward by the CAT and the co-plaintiffs, Thubten Wangchen and the Casa del Tibet Foundation. Read more
COVERAGE IN PORTUGUÉS
AFP- Brazil
Spain investigates former Chinese President Hu Jintao for repression in Tibet
Spanish justice admitted that there is an open action against former Chinese president Hu Jintao, under the investigation carried out by genocide in Tibet, in the years 1980 e 1990 – According to a self-judicial released on Thursday. Read more
Terra.com.br
Spain investigates former Chinese President Hu Jintao for repression in Tibet
The action, presented by the Tibet Support Committee (CAT), pointed to seven former Chinese leaders, among them, Former President Jiang Zemin and former Prime Minister Li Peng. The text called for Jintao to be imputed, After his immunity as head of state came to an end. Rea more
