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MADRID — Spain’s Parliament approved a law Thursday narrowing the scope of a cross-border justice doctrine that had allowed judges to indict people such as Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden.
The practice had irked some countries targeted in probes by Spanish magistrates and led to accusations that Spain was behaving like a global policeman.
Under the reformed version of the law, such cases can now be undertaken only if there were Spanish victims of the crime or the alleged perpetrators are in Spain.
