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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 [...]
Posted in Domestic Courts Also tagged 1976–1981, Argentine dictator, Carlos Menem, Cordoba, crimes against humanity, dictatorship, Dirty War, disappearance, Jorge Rafael Videla, life imprisonment, Luciano Benjamin Menendez, murder, pardon, sentence, Supreme Court of Argentine Comments closed
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 [...]
Posted in Domestic Courts Also tagged 1977 amnesty law, amnesty law, assassination, Baltasar Garzon, deliberate, dictatorship, disappearance, forced disappearances, Francisco Franco, General Francisco Franco, genocide, human rights abuses, Investigation, Jose Luis Sanchez Bravo, judge, kidnapping, Maria Servini, murder, Silvia Carretero, Spanish Civil War, systematic, torture, widespread Comments closed
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. [...]
Posted in Domestic Courts Also tagged Alice Domon, Buenos Aires, Dagmar Hagelin, death flights, Dirty War, enforced disappearance, ESMA, extradition, federal court, French nuns, Guerra Sucia, Julio Alberto Poch, KLM-Air France, Leonie Duquet, lieutenant, Manises, Naval Mechanics School, navy, Netherlands, pilot, prison, Rodolfo Walsh, Sergio Torres, Spain, torture, Transavia, Valencia Comments closed
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 [...]
Posted in Domestic Courts Also tagged Asociacion Civil Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Carlos Slepoy, Dario Rivas, dictatorship, Francisco Franco, genocide, Ines Garcia, petition, the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo Comments closed
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 [...]
Argentina: 15 Former Officials Jailed for Human Rights Violations Committed during the Dirty War