Spain’s top investigative judge, Baltasar Garzón, has launched a new criminal investigation into allegations of torture at Guantánamo Bay and other US prison camps that will target the “possible material authors, enablers and accomplices” of the illegal abuse of detainees.
In a strongly worded court order issued Wednesday, Garzón indicated that he would investigate the role of high-level Bush administration officials in what he called an “authorized and systematic plan for torture and harsh treatment of people deprived of their freedom without any charges and without the most basic elemental rights for detainees, set forth and demanded by international treaties.” Top Bush administration officials, including the former president, now have good reason to avoid leaving the US...
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Paul Mitchell and Chris Marsden, "Spanish judge launches new torture probe," World Socialist Web Site, May 1, 2009.
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