Spanish justice on trial | Miguel Murado | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "Judge Baltasar Garzón's latest case once again involves a high profile defendant: himself. After making headlines around the world for going after the likes of Osama bin Laden, the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet or Silvio Berlusconi, the Spanish judge will be sitting in the dock rather than presiding, charged with 'perverting the course of justice'.
The reason? He dared to launch an investigation of the crimes of the Francoist dictatorship that ruled Spain between 1936 and 1975 and carried out well over 100,000 summary executions without proper trial. And if you think this is odd just wait, there's more: the plaintiffs in this case are three far-right political organisations, among them Falange Española, none other than the old Fascist party, which is in fact credited with most of those atrocities Garzón was set to investigate."
