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Spain: Popular jury

01 January 1996

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In March 1996 the first trials with the new jury-system will start. 52,000 people have so far been selected to serve on juries who will deal with criminal cases against human life, freedom, honour, privacy and crimes committed by civil servants. The obligatory nature to take part in a jury has started a great debate. Refusal to take part can lead to a fine as well as the possibility of being put on trial for denigrating the juridical process. The right to refuse participation "en un sistema de juridical administration" for those sectors of the population who find themselves in radical disagreement with the functioning of this system has yet to be decided. Abolition of the death penalty: On 29 November 1995 the constitutional law abolishing the death penalty in times of war came into effect thus eliminating the death penalty from the legal system. Hoods ban for demos? The Council of Interior of the Basque Country is advocating that the Penal Code must include punishments for people who take part in demonstrations wearing masks or hoods. Recently the video recording of demonstrators and the use of those videos in trials has been subject of contradictory decisions by judges as to whether the videos are valid. Kontrola Kontrolpean, Donostia, Euskadi.

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