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Spanish Prosecutor Moves to Enforce UN Ruling and Erase Garzón’s Record

The motion asks the court to declare the ministry’s silence unlawful, require publication of the UN ruling, mandate judicial impartiality reforms, order compensation, trigger record expungement

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El exjuez Baltasar Garzón

Overview

  • On August 8, the Prosecutor’s Office filed a motion with the Audiencia Nacional to compel the Ministry of Justice to implement the 2021 UN Human Rights Committee ruling
  • The UN Committee found in 2021 that Spain violated Garzón’s due process and impartiality rights and ordered record erasure, compensation and systemic reforms
  • Garzón’s repeated requests to Justice in January and February 2022 and January 2025 went unanswered, a silence the motion now labels unlawful
  • The filing demands that the Boletín Oficial del Estado publish the UN decision to ensure transparency and public awareness
  • It also calls for new legislative measures to guarantee judicial impartiality, higher-court review and clear definitions of prohibited prosecutorial conduct