Argentine rights workers to Spain: lay off Garzon

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The president of the Argentine human rights group Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo says Spain's prosecution of crusading judge Baltasar Garzon is an assault on the human race.

Hebe de Bonafini said Friday that she is filing a habeus corpus petition with Spain and the European human rights court demanding an end to the trials that have already effectively ended Garzon's career.

Garzon is a hero in Latin America for filing charges against dictactors in Chile and Argentina long before those countries were able to handle their own human rights trials. Now De Bonafini says it's time for Argentines to speak out against was she called the dictatorial forces of the past that threaten to resurface.