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MADRID, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A controversial Spanish judge was found guilty Thursday of ordering illegal wiretapping and suspended from the bench for 11 years.
MADRID, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Spain's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday the case against a judge who ordered an inquiry into massacres that occurred during the Franco era can proceed.
MADRID, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Baltasar Garzon, the Spanish judge who ordered the arrest of former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet, has denied accusations he abused judicial powers.
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MADRID, April 7 (UPI) -- A judge in Spain is facing trial himself for allegedly abusing his powers by probing Franco-era slayings and abductions, officials say.
MADRID, June 13 (UPI) -- Seven bodies of victims of execution-style killings dating to Spain's Civil War have been exhumed from a mass grave as part of a court order.
HAVANA, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Hundreds of Cubans clamored outside the Spanish Embassy in Havana hoping to apply for a Spanish passport under a new Spanish law.
MADRID, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The children and grandchildren of Spaniards who fled their homes during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco can apply for citizenship, officials say.
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