[2] The law is still in force, and has been used as a reason for not investigating and prosecuting Francoist human rights violations.
The Commissioner referred to Spain's obligation to comply with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
[10] In 2008, Judge Baltasar Garzón briefly began an official inquiry, symbolically indicting Franco for the disappearance of more than 100,000 people.
In 2009, Manos Limpias, a far-right syndicate, brought criminal charges against the judge, for defying the amnesty law.
[12] Since 2010, Argentinian judge María Servini de Cubría has been investigating civil rights abuses under the Franco regime.