1976 Human Rights Videla dictatorship HR repression against humanity Menendez trial
Jorge Rafael Videla and Luciano Benjamin Menendez were sentenced by the Criminal Tribunal Oral Federal N º 1 in the city of Cordoba to serve a sentence of life imprisonment in a common jail for crimes committed during the dictatorship.
Murder, torture condition exacerbated by the political persecution of victims, degree murder, illegal deprivation of liberty, with the assistance of various partners, are some of the allegations found proved the TOF.
Videla, 85, was convicted of tax crimes of torture, killings committed with treachery and torture followed by death.
The court ordered his immediate accommodation in a common prison unit of the Federal Penitentiary Service, without considering the benefit of home detention for his age.
This is the first sentence that receives the head of the dictatorship from the trial of the Joint Chiefs in 1985, after the repeal of the laws of Due Obedience and Full Stop.
Menendez, former head of the Third Army Corps, was sentenced to the same penalty, which shall also meet in an ordinary prison. Both were tried in this case along with 28 other defendants for crimes against humanity.
Videla commanded the military junta that overthrew the March 24, 1976 the democratic government of Maria Estela Martinez de Peron. He led the de facto government until 1981.
In 1985 he was convicted in the historic trial of the military junta to life imprisonment but was released in 1990 benefited from the pardons granted by President Carlos Menem (1989-1999).
In 1998 he was again arrested on charges of illegal appropriation of minors during the dictatorship, first under house arrest and from 2008 in a prison at the military headquarters of the locality of Campo de Mayo.
Argentina's last dictatorship left a toll of 30,000 missing, according to estimates by human rights organizations.
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