Word: prosecutors
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...country where some members of Franco's regime continued to hold office long after the dictatorship ended, not everyone supports the decision - including the court's lead prosecutor, who is appealing the ruling. Senator Agustín Conde, spokesperson on judicial affairs for the opposition Popular Party, lamented that Garzón was "reopening wounds that were happily healed," and an editorial in the center-right paper El Mundo warned that "the politics of memory are nasty" and constitute a "bloodless form of vengeance...
...Snider’s big break: she is sitting bored in the mailroom, flipping through the latest issue of Cosmo. She calls up her friend at a publishing house and asks after any compelling manuscripts. The friend mentions that Scott Turow’s recent story about a prosecutor charged with the murder of a female colleague/lover is getting all the buzz. Snider requests a copy, reads it in one day, pitches it, writes a synopsis, and ends up pitching it again to a studio head, who recognizes her taste and drive. The book becomes the bestselling novel...
...Sandinista inquisition is escalating from threats to actions. Last Friday, state prosecutors and police raided the central office of the Autonomous Women's Movement (MAM) and another local NGO that has helped finance the feminist movement and removed all the files, computers and bookkeeping from their offices, in what Public Prosecutor Armando Juarez called a raid to "find evidence" to mount a case against them. The local opposition press denounced the raid as a "Gestapo" tactic, and women's rights activists from across Latin America released a joint statement from Guatemala denouncing the Ortega government's "institutionalized misogynism" and "campaign...
...were a state prosecutor and a state representative before becoming sheriff, how has this background affected your approach...
...apartheid; the unemployment rate is 23.1% and rises far higher in many black townships. The ANC has long prided itself on its internal unity and discipline, but the Mbeki-Zuma power struggle has seen both factions cross traditional boundaries of acceptable conduct. Mbeki is accused of using the national prosecutor's office against his adversary (as well as of intervening to prevent the prosecution of key allies), while Zuma's supporters threatened violence against those who stand in his way. Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has accused the ANC of betraying the promise of the Mandela years, and former apartheid...