Professor Margalida Capellà i Roig, member and director of the Human Rights Lab-LIDIB, accompanied the United Nations Special Rapporteur on transitional justice, Mr. Fabián Salvioli, in several of the activities scheduled during his visit to the Balearic Islands. He has participated in meetings of the Rapporteur with organizations of democratic memory and with relatives of victims of Franco’s repression in our Community on March 9, in a conference on truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of reparation held at the headquarters of the Conselleria of energy transition, productive sectors and democratic memory of the Balearic Government on March 10 and finally in the handing over of the recently identified missing persons, held at the Palma cemetery on March 11.
Margalida Capellà has investigated the enforced disappearances of the civil war and the Franco dictatorship, from a legal and especially human rights perspective and has numerous publications on the matter, the most recent CAPELLÀ I ROIG, Margalida (2021). El derecho a interponer recursos y a obtener reparación de los familiares de personas desaparecidas durante la guerra civil española (The right to file appeals and obtain reparation for the relatives of persons who disappeared during the Spanish Civil War) in EUNOMÍA. Revista En Cultura De La Legalidad, (20), 104-140. As a deputy in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands (2015-2017), she was speaker and coordinator of Law 10/2016, of June 13, for the recovery of persons who disappeared during the Civil War and the Franco regime BOIB núm. 076 de 2016. He is currently a member of the Commission of Democratic Memory and Recognition of the Balearic Islands representing the University of the Balearic Islands.
See RTVE’s report on the Rapporteur’s visit to the Balearic Islands: Restos de la Guerra Civil en Baleares: en ocho años han abierto una veintena de fosas (Remains of the Civil War in the Balearic Islands: twenty mass graves have been opened in eight years) (March 12, 2023).