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Argentina: 15 Former Officials Jailed for Human Rights Violations Committed during the Dirty War

2010-12-21, Buenos Aires & Mar del Plata, Argentina. Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata Courts sentenced to life in prison 15 military and police officers for crimes they committed during Videla’s military dictatorship (1976-1983).  The Mar del Plata Court convicted a former army officer and 2 ex-marines for kidnapping and torturing nine opposition members at a [...]
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Argentina: Jorge Rafael Videla, former head of state, Sentenced to Life Imprisonment

2010-12-22, Cordoba, Argentina. A Cordoba Court sentenced Jorge Rafael Videla, 85, former Argentine dictator, to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity committed during his 1976–1981 regime when over 10’000 people were disappeared and killed. Mr. Rafael Videla was sentenced in 1985 to life in prison, however, was pardoned five years later by former President Carlos [...]
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Argentina: A Judge Challenges Spain on Its Failure to Investigate Franko’s Crimes

2010-10-14, Buenos Aires, Argentina. An Argentinean Judge Maria Romilda Servini de Cubria petitioned the Spanish government “to inform this court whether in your country there is an investigation into the existence of a systematic, widespread and deliberate plan designed to terrorise those Spaniards who supported representative government via their physical elimination, and of a plan [...]
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Argentina: Poch: Suspected ‘Death Flights’ Pilot Extradited from Spain

2010-05-07, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Julio Alberto Poch, a former Argentinian navy lieutenant,  was extradited to Argentina from Spain on Thursday and had his first court appearance on Friday. He is  suspected of being a pilot of ‘death flights’ at the Naval Mechanics School (ESMA), that operated as a prison and a torture center during the 1976-1983 Dirty War. [...]
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Argentina: Astiz Won't Be Extradited to France

2010-04-23, Bahia Blanca, Argentina. Bahia Blanca’s Federal Court No. 2 rejected France’s request to extradite  Alfredo Astiz, a.k.a. the Blond Angel of Death. The defendant stands trial, together with 17 others, before the Federal Criminal Court No. 5 in Buenos Aires on accusations of kidnapping, torture and disappearance of a number of people, including French nuns Alice Domon and Leonie [...]
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Argentina: Case Brought to Investigate Franco’s ‘Genocide’

2010-04-14, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Two victims of the Franco dictatorship, Darío Rivas and Inés García, supported by  the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo group, brought a petition before an Argentian court to investigate the crimes committed between 1936 and 1977. According to the petitioners’ lawyer, Carlos Slepoy, the lawsuit is based on the crime of [...]
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ICJ: Pulp Mills: The Judgment to be Rendered in April

2010-03-26, The Hague, The Netherlands. The ICJ to render the judgment in the case of Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay) on April 20, 2010. The conflict between the two states is in respect of the Botnia pulp mill that Argentina alleged pollutes air and water. The mill, that is worth $1.2B , is Uruguay’s largest [...]
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