His lawyer, Baltasar Garzon, called earlier for him to be given safe passage to Ecuador from Britain.
Investigating magistrate Baltasar Garzon has passed a 98-page complaint to prosecutors that accuses former Attorney General Alberto R.
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Around 150 former officers are being investigated by Baltasar Garzon, the same Spanish judge who is pursuing General Pinochet.
For example, in 2001 Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon agreed to become honorary head of a group promoting the ICC.
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The full process could take several months but Spain's campaigning magistrate, Baltasar Garzon, has already moved to suspend its activities.
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South American judges have also been emboldened by foreign attempts, especially those of Spain's Baltasar Garzon, to extradite Argentine and Chilean military leaders.
The Spanish Government has backed an extradition request by Judge Baltasar Garzon, who is investigating crimes committed against Spaniards by former military governments in Latin America.
Now Baltasar Garzon, the investigating magistrate who once tried to bring Chile's Augusto Pinochet to trial, has initiated a criminal inquiry into the secret accounts, with 16 of the bank's former directors implicated.
We learned this weekend that a Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzon, is preparing to prosecute six Americans who worked as senior legal and policy advisors to President George W. Bush - including Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith.
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According to Reforma's investigation, an identity card number that Ricardo Miguel Cavallo submitted to the Mexican authorities in a residency application is the same one sighted by the Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzon, who wants to try Miguel Angel Cavallo on charges of torture and murder.
Another cloud over the summit was the efforts of Baltasar Garzon, a Spanish judge, to extradite Chile's former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, who was arrested in London just two days before last year's summit, and to do the same to 98 retired officers from Argentina's military dictatorship of 1976-82.
"What the United Kingdom must do is apply the diplomatic obligations of the (U.N.) Refugee Convention and let him leave with a safe conduct pass, " said Baltasar Garzon, a former Spanish judge who said he is working pro bono as coordinator of Assange's defense team, by e-mail from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
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