>Audiencia Nacional
Found a great resource in DoS FOIA reading room re: Spain's Audencia Nacional and other Spanish issues in the form of a cheat sheet for the proposed Ambassador,Alan D. Solomont and his testimony before the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations
Subcommittee on European Affairs. Document date: 2009 (cough). Wasn't there an issue re: IP addresses and access to the US voting system?
Q: As Ambassador, how would you handle Spanish assertion of universal
jurisdiction?
A: If confirmed, I would stress to the Spanish Government that the cases against former U.S. officials are objectionable to the USG and that the U.S. judicial system can handle the issue perfectly well.
'''Spain asserts broad jurisdiction in human rights cases, even where the crime did
not occur in Spain and where no Spanish victims or perpetrators are involved. The
investigating judges of Spain's National Court (Audiencia Nacional) perform many
functions that in the U.S. would be carried out by prosecutors, and they have great
autonomy.'''
There is a move in the Spanish Congress, supported by both President Zapatero's
party and by the opposition, to limit universal jurisdiction where there is no
Spanish nexus."
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From 2015 - The Audiencia Nacional also "convicted Spain-based al-Qa'ida cell leader Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas to 27 years in prison for "membership in a terrorist organization" and "conspiracy to commit terrorist acts." Yarkas had been in prison on charges of having providing support to al-Qa'ida and of having helped Mohamed Atta organize the 9/11 attacks against New York and Washington."
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