Baltasar Garzón Receives ALBA/ Puffin Award

August 10, 2011

Perry Rosenstein (above) President of the Puffin Foundation, Ltd. presented the first ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism to Judge Baltasar Garzón of Spain on May 14, 2011.  Judge Garzón is a world-renowned hero to the human rights community, in large part because of his indictment and arrest warrant against Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator of Chile. Judge Garzón (below right) is acting as a consultant to the International Criminal Court, carrying on his lifelong work of holding international criminals  accountable.  (Photos by Len Tsou)