‘Dirty War’ Policeman Gets 25-Year Sentence
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A former police officer was sentenced to 25 years in prison for human rights abuses in connection with a couple’s 1978 disappearance during Argentina’s military dictatorship.
It was the first conviction since 1980s amnesty laws protecting former military and police officials were overturned last year by the Supreme Court.
A federal tribunal in Buenos Aires convicted former officer Julio Simon of the torture and “illegal privation” of liberty of Chilean Jose Poblete and his Argentine wife, Gertrudis Hlaczik, a court statement said, as well as taking away their 8-month-old daughter and giving her to a military officer’s family.
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