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Democratising and decolonising Spain: the limits of the new law on memory
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 Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship. The new law, however, does not abolish the 1977 Amnesty Law that shields perpetrators from prosecution. […]
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