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2 elderly people demonstrate (holding up pictures of Franco's victims), in the streets of Madrid (Spain)

Democratising and decolonising Spain: the limits of the new law on memory

5 December 2022 by Carles Fernandez-Torne and Pablo Ouziel

In Spain, transitional justice revolutions happen in slow motion. On 21 October, a new Democratic Memory Law created a public prosecutor’s office “for human rights and democratic memory”, to investigate past violations during the [...]