Archive for February 15th, 2012
Conviction of Spain’s Superjudge Garzon: An indictment of its own judiciary?
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012The recent conviction (ostensibly for ordering jailhouse witetaps) of Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish judge who took on corrupt officials, despots, terrorists and human rights violators during the Franco regime, casts a dark shadow on Spain’s judiciary and hints at a political witch-hunt. In October 1998, Judge Garzón catapulted to prominence when he broke with [...]