Thursday, October 27, 2011

Argentine Court Gives Life Sentences to Ex-Soldiers, Police for Crimes Against Humanity

Published October 26, 2011

| Associated Press

A court in Argentina has sentenced 12 former military and police officials to life in prison for crimes against humanity committed during the country's 1976-1983 dictatorship.

The men were convicted of kidnapping, torturing and killing leftist dissidents at a torture center called the Navy Mechanics School.

Among those sentenced was Alfredo Astiz, a 59-year-old former navy spy nicknamed "the Angel of Death." Astiz is accused of participating in the disappearance, torture and murder of two French nuns, a journalist and three founders of a human rights group that he infiltrated while spying for the dictatorship.

Source: http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/world/~3/cQFxGiYNIoM/

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