Those Catalans keep showing the rest of us up. First they become the core of an almost-successful experiment in libertarian socialism while 70 years later we're still catching up, eyes wide-and-glistening at notions of horizontalidad and Changing the World Without Taking Power. Now,the Senator of the United Left, the heroic Joan Josep Nuet--the same Catalonian Senator who rode aboard the Spirit of Humanity in an attempt to break the continued siege of the Gaza strip--is talking about putting the criminals responsible for Cast Lead in the dock [my translation, a bit rough, legal terminology is hard]:
Senate United Left supports the platform against impunity and for universal justice
The Senator of the United Left (IU), Joan Josep Nuet, along with other senators from the Initiative for a Green Catalonia (ICV) and the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) has enabled today’s entrance into the Senate of a group of activists from the “Platform against impunity, for universal justice,” who distributed to the senators of the chamber an explanatory card concerning the momentous vote which was going to take place the following day. To coincide with the presence on the floor of Spanish President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, they made a personal delivery of the letter.
Tomorrow, Wednesday the 6 of October [now yesterday] the senate will vote concerning a Project of Statutory Law complementary to the Law for the Reform of the Procedural Legislation for the Implantation of a New Judicial Office, to which end it modifies Statutory Law 6/1985, of the 1st of June, of the judicial power.
Beneath this banner a pact of the PP-PSOE, set in the House and which still exists in the Senate, to severely trim the precepts of Universal Jurisdiction currently-existing in Spanish law, that enable the prosecution of certain crimes that are so atrocious, so detrimental to the international community (crimes against humanity, genocide, war-crimes, torture, forced disappearance, among others) that State are bound to prosecute them in any circumstance.The Spanish Government, according to article 23.4 of the Statutory Law for Judicial Power, that now they seek to modify, follows international human rights treaties which it has signed and which it is obligated to adhere to.
The activists taking part in the action were: Rodríguez Francisco, report of the channel Ser in Iraq in 2004 and witness to the death of José Couso in the Hotel Palestina, Enrique Santiago Romero, a lawyer active in proceedings related to Universal Jurisdiction, Santiago González, the lawyer for the popular accusation in the case of Gaza (Palestine), Noe Blanco, of ATTAC for Global Economic Justice, Iván Forero y Antonio Segura of CEAR, the Spanish Commission to Aid Refugees, and Santiago González, USO.
Oh right, the amendment was approved.
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