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01 March 2003

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Spain: Phone taps violated privacy: On 18 February 2003, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg announced its decision to unanimously find Spain guilty of contravening article 8 of the ECHR, which guarantees the right to private life. The case was brought in 2000 by José Ramón Prado Bugallo, who is serving a sentence of over 20 years for drug trafficking. The complaint concerned telephone taps ordered by judge Baltasar Garzón in 1990 against suspects in the case, and resulted in the court considering that the Spanish regulation for phone taps was unable "to prevent abuses", did not specify "the kinds of offences that can give rise to interception", and of not fixing "a limit for the duration of the execution of the measure". El País 19.2.03

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