Tag Archives: Spain

Argentina: Poch: Suspected ‘Death Flights’ Pilot Extradited from Spain

2010-05-07, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Julio Alberto Poch, a former Argentinian navy lieutenant,  was extradited to Argentina from Spain on Thursday and had his first court appearance on Friday. He is  suspected of being a pilot of ‘death flights’ at the Naval Mechanics School (ESMA), that operated as a prison and a torture center during the 1976-1983 Dirty War. [...]
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Spain: Matar: Supreme Court Upholds the Decision to Close the Investigation

2010-04-13, Madrid, Spain. The Spanish Supreme Court upheld the decision of the National Court of 30 June 2009, closing the investigation into Al Daraj attack of June 2002, when the IDF dropped a bomb that killed Salah Shehade together with his bodyguards and 14 civilians. Mr. Shehade was a suspected leader of the Izzidin al-Qassam Brigade, [...]
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Spain: Batko to be Extradited … Somewhere

2010-04-09, Madrid, Spain. The Spanish government made a decision to extradite Veselin Vlahovic aka Batko. He is facing war crimes charges in BiH, for murders committed in Sarajevo’s Grbavici neighbourhood; Serbia, where he was convicted of a murder in 2001, and Montenegro, where he was convicted for a violent crime and later escaped from detention. The government, [...]
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Spain: Magistrate Garzon Indicted for Overreaching His Jurisdiction

2010-04-07, Madrid, Spain. After losing his appeal to the Supreme Court, Spanish Magistrate Baltasar Garzon was indicted for knowingly overreaching his jurisdiction. He was suspended from his job awaiting trial. The charges relate to the investigation Garzon started into the disappearance of 114K people during Franco’s regime, the crimes that are covered by the 1977 [...]
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Spain: Batko Admits to Crimes in Grbavica

2010-03-04, Altea, Spain. According to El Pais, Batko admitted to war crimes committed in Grbavica. Serbian Ministry of Justice announced that it will be requesting extradition of Batko to serve the sentence rendered by the Novi Sad District Court for the killings committed in Serbia. Montenegro will also request his extradition to Montenegro to finish [...]
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Spain: Batko arrested in Spain

2010-03-02, Altea, Spain. Veselin Vlahovic Batko aka “the monster of Grbavica”  was arrested by Spanish police. There are three outstanding international arrest warrants for Mr. Vlahovic for crimes committed in Sarajevo during the Bosnian wars. He was arrested following a series of armed robberies committed in Spain. Reuters | CNN | Jurist |
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