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A lower level dispute is also brewing with Spain in connection with the highly controversial death sentence passed on Paco Larrañaga, a Spanish citizen who is currently waiting on death row in Manila. Serious irregularities in the trial and evidence of political pressure to secure a guilty verdict (despite the evidence) have been ignored by the country's Supreme Court. Both Spain's Senate and the European Commission are pressing for a urgent review of the case, which reveals grave flaws in the Philippine judicial system