Five of the defendants are fugitives from justice. The national programme for the search for wanted suspects offers a , peso 20, dollar award to anyone who provides information leading to their arrest. The case is the biggest in Argentina since the human rights trials got underway again in the past decade, after the amnesty laws and pardons protecting human rights violators were declared unconstitutional. While the accused and their defence counsel, and the families of the victims, survivors and their lawyers took their seats in the courtroom, another stage was set up for people to follow the trial.
A giant screen was installed in the Mabel Gutierrez auditorium in ESMA, which was converted into a human rights museum after it was handed over to human rights groups in Varsky, the director of litigation in CELS, explained that the case had come to trial in bits and pieces, which she said "hid the true magnitude of the genocide committed" in ESMA.
But he committed suicide in his cell just four days before the verdict was to be handed down. This year, however, a number of cases committed in the same clandestine detention centre or the same military district were combined, and dozens of defendants have been tried simultaneously in each trial. One of the biggest, highest-profile trials began in November. Located in the centre of Buenos Aires, a total of 5, political prisoners were held there, and only a handful came out alive.
The ESMA installations are now a human rights museum. In another 16 ESMA human rights violators were tried in a second trial. Early this month, another large-scale trial began in the central province of Cordoba, which combined 16 cases against 46 defendants and involving victims.
Like the ESMA trial, it will end in While the accused and their defence counsel, and the families of the victims, survivors and their lawyers took their seats in the courtroom, another stage was set up for people to follow the trial.
A giant screen was installed in the Mabel Gutierrez auditorium in ESMA, which was converted into a human rights museum after it was handed over to human rights groups in But he committed suicide in his cell just four days before the verdict was to be handed down.
The children were mainly raised by military or police families. In response to such demands, and to the recommendation of a higher court aimed at expediting the case , the court where the trial is being held agreed to show filmed testimony given by witnesses in other trials against the same defendants.
One of the survivors who have most often testified is Mario Villani, a year-old physicist who lives in Miami, Florida. Argentina faces long-standing human rights problems that include police abuse, poor prison conditions, endemic violence against women, threats to judicial independence, and obstacles that keep Indigenous people from enjoying rights afforded to them by Argentine and international law.
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