Gonzalo Boye
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Gonzalo Boye is a human rights lawyer, based in Spain
, notable for trying to use Spanish law to charge Bush administration officials for their roles in war crimes committed against citizens or residents of Spain while the US held them in extrajudicial detention
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Boye was born in Chile
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Many nations allow war crime charges to be laid against non-citizens, and non-residents, when the countries where they lived when the war crimes were committed has failed to initiate an effective inquiry.
Spain has a tradition of being more aggressive than other nations, famously trying to extradite Chile
an leader Augusto Pinochet
from Britain. In 2009 Boye tried to initiate extradition of six former officials
from the Presidency of George W. Bush
.
Andrew C. McCarthy
, writing in the National Review
asserted that Boye earned his law degree when he was in prison for playing a role in the political kidnapping of Emiliano Revilla
.
Boye was one of four individuals profiled in the award winning documentary The Guantanamo trap
.
The movie challenges whether Boye was fairly convicted for the kidnapping. According to Deutche Welle Boye was "a victim of police torture himself".
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, notable for trying to use Spanish law to charge Bush administration officials for their roles in war crimes committed against citizens or residents of Spain while the US held them in extrajudicial detention
Extrajudicial detention
Arbitrary or extrajudicial detention is the detention of individuals by a state, without ever laying formal charges against them.Although it has a long history of legitimate use in wartime , detention without charge, sometimes in secret, has been one of the hallmarks of totalitarian states...
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Boye was born in Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
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Many nations allow war crime charges to be laid against non-citizens, and non-residents, when the countries where they lived when the war crimes were committed has failed to initiate an effective inquiry.
Spain has a tradition of being more aggressive than other nations, famously trying to extradite Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
an leader Augusto Pinochet
Augusto Pinochet
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, more commonly known as Augusto Pinochet , was a Chilean army general and dictator who assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973...
from Britain. In 2009 Boye tried to initiate extradition of six former officials
The Bush Six
The Bush Six is a term which refers to six former officials of the United States government under the presidency of George W. Bush , following the filing of criminal charges against them in Spain....
from the Presidency of George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
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Andrew C. McCarthy
Andrew C. McCarthy
Andrew C. McCarthy III is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. A Republican, he is most notable for leading the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others. The defendants were convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center...
, writing in the National Review
National Review
National Review is a biweekly magazine founded by the late author William F. Buckley, Jr., in 1955 and based in New York City. It describes itself as "America's most widely read and influential magazine and web site for conservative news, commentary, and opinion."Although the print version of the...
asserted that Boye earned his law degree when he was in prison for playing a role in the political kidnapping of Emiliano Revilla
Emiliano Revilla
Emiliano Revilla is a Spanish industrialist who was kidnapped by the Basque separatist group ETA in 1988.He was captured on February 25, 1988, and freed on October 30, 1988.From 1960 to 1974 Revilla was the mayor of Ólvega....
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Boye was one of four individuals profiled in the award winning documentary The Guantanamo trap
The Guantanamo Trap
The Guantanamo Trap is a documentary film about four individuals whose lives were changed by their association with the Guantanamo Bay detention camps...
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The movie challenges whether Boye was fairly convicted for the kidnapping. According to Deutche Welle Boye was "a victim of police torture himself".