1. Gonzalo Boye Tuset was born on 3 April 1965 and is a lawyer based in Spain, known for being convicted in connection with a kidnapping by Basque separatist group ETA in 1996, and for attempting to charge members of the George W Bush administration officials for war crimes committed against Spanish citizens.
Gonzalo Boye's father developed anti-pinochetista stances while his mother turned to support Pinochet instead.
Gonzalo Boye took his basic education at The Mackay School, an elite school in Valparaiso.
Gonzalo Boye lived for a while in Heidelberg, where he studied Economics and Political Science, failing to graduate.
Gonzalo Boye reportedly moved to Spain by the late 1980s.
Allegedly a member of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, Gonzalo Boye was detained in 1992 by the Policia Nacional, accused of participating in the kidnappings of Diego Prado y Colon de Carvajal in 1983 and Emiliano Revilla in 1988.
Gonzalo Boye began to study law while he was convicted, earning a licentiate degree in Law from the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia in 2002, the year in which he was released.
In 2009 Boye tried to initiate extradition of six former officials from the Presidency of George W Bush.
Gonzalo Boye was one of four individuals profiled in the award-winning documentary The Guantanamo trap.
The movie challenges whether Gonzalo Boye was fairly convicted for the kidnapping.
However, Gonzalo Boye was convicted and sentenced to 14 years imprisonment.
Gonzalo Boye has been the lawyer for Pablo Gonzalez Yague, a Russian-Spanish journalist arrested by the Polish authorities in February 2022 as a Russian agent and held without trial until a multinational exchange of prisoners with Russia in August 2024.