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Acknowledgements

Judith Sunderland, a consultant to Human Rights Watch, researched and wrote this report. Julia Hall, counsel, and Ben Ward, special counsel, in the Europe and Central Asia Division, each participated in one of the five research missions to Madrid. Ben Ward and Widney Brown, Deputy Program Director, edited the report; Wilder Tayler, Legal and Policy Director, conducted the legal review.

Human Rights Watch wishes to express its gratitude to all of the people, named and unnamed, who contributed to this report. We acknowledge the 11-M suspects who agreed to speak with us, as well as the 11-M legal aid attorneys and 11-S defense attorneys who provided invaluable insight into the cases and experiences of their individual clients.  The author would like especially to acknowledge criminal defense lawyer José Luis Galán Martín for his always timely and illuminating guidance on questions of law, and Diego Lorente, of SOS Racismo, for his unfailing support for this research. María Delgado; Virginia Alvarez of Amnesty International’s Spain section; and Marta Moreno of the Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado (CEAR); and Juan Maza Amadeo of Movimiento por la Paz, el Desarme y la Libertad (MPDL) also provided  critical insights. Numerous journalists covering the cases detailed in this report generously gave us their time and in-depth knowledge of the issues.