some information on this Judge, he knows what he's doing!
Who is Spain's Judge Baltasar Garzón? Five key questions answered.
Garzón is a leading international human rights lawyer, originally from the town of Torres in southern
Spain. Garzón became the youngest judge in Spain’s national court at the age of 32, and over the course of 22 years he made a name for himself by championing universal jurisdiction, the idea that national courts can prosecute serious human rights violations committed anywhere in the world.
He helped set international human rights law precedent in 1998 when he had
Chile’s
Augusto Pinochet arrested while visiting
England. Garzón ordered his extradition to Spain on charges of killing Spaniards in Chile and crimes of genocide during his authoritarian rule in Chile. Although
Jack Straw, England’s home secretary at the time, stopped the extradition, the case is regarded as
one of the most important human rights cases in history, the Guardian reports.