- It also confirms the file of the case on the persecution of the Falun Gong group
- They do not meet the requirements established with the reform of universal justice
- Confirms the decision of the National Court to order the archive
Archive image of former Chinese president Jiang ZeminREUTERS
RTVE.es / Agencies – MADRID22.04.2015
The Criminal Plenary of the Supreme Court confirmed this Wednesday, unanimously, the decision ofthe National Court to file the two cases against Chinaabout genocide and torture in Tibet and the persecution of members of the Falun Gong group, as reported by the high court.
The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court has unanimously decideddismiss the appeals presented by the popular accusations and , therefore, has confirmed the filing of the two criminal cases that were open in the National Court and in which several Chinese leaders were involved.
These cases, related to universal justice and in which several Chinese leaders were requested to be investigated, They were being investigated by the National Court and were archived last year after the reform of the law, after which the private accusations appealed to the Supreme Court.
Reform of universal justice
The plenary session of the Criminal Court has met to adopt this resolution, whatgenerates jurisprudence on the scope of the so-called Universal Justice after the recent legislative reform.
The National Court made the decision in June arguing that thesetwo procedures did not meet the requirements that Congress established in the reform of the article 23 of the Organic Law of the Judiciary (LOPJ), that limited universal justice, and this criterion is what the high court now confirms. It had been designated asrapporteur of the two resolutions to magistrate Cándido Conde-Pumpido.
Contrary to what is established by the new legislation, the two causesThey were directed against people who do not have Spanish nationality, who do not habitually reside in Spain and whose extradition was not denied by the national authorities.
The judge ordered the arrest of the former Chinese president
In the case over Tibet, Judge Ismael Moreno investigated the genocide, the torture and crimes against humanity that would have occurred in the region, in which a million people would have died during the last fifty years.
In February 2014the judgeordered the arrest of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, the ex-minister Li Peng, the head of Chinese security and head of the Police Qiao Shi, former Tibet Party Secretary Chen Kuiyan and former Minister of Family Planning Peng Pelyun. Former President Hu Jintao was also charged in the case..
Regarding the Falun Gong case, Moreno instructed acomplaint filed in 2004 by 15 victims of repression that the members of this group suffered since 1999.
The procedure, which was endorsed in June 2006 For the Supreme, It was directed, inter alia, against the current president of the National Committee of the Political Advisory Council of the Chinese people, Jia Qinglin, Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee between 1997 and 2002.
