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The investigation into abuses committed during Argentina's Dirty War has been expanded to include the tenure of former President Isabel Peron , a government minister said Thursday. Peron, the wife of late President...

A massive demonstration attended by thousands of people protesting the disappearance of Jorge Julio Lopez clogged the streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina on Wednesday. The protest represents the third time such a demonstration has taken place...

JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that the "compromise" between senior Republican lawmakers and the White House on the terms of military commission legislation governing detainee interrogation and trial provides US interrogators with...

Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz , former chief investigator of the Buenos Aires province police, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday for his role during the Dirty War in Argentina . With the conviction,...

Eight former police and military officers have been indicted by a Uruguayan court on counts of kidnapping and conspiracy committed during Uruguay's military dictatorship of 1973-85 . The crimes relate to the 1976 disappearances of five members of...

A federal judge in Argentina Tuesday ruled unconstitutional a presidential pardon extended to Jorge Rafael Videla , who prosecutors say led Argentina's military junta during the worst periods of the so-called "Dirty War" ...

Former Argentine President Raul Alfonsin has testified that amnesty laws preventing prosecution for human rights abuses during the so-called Dirty War of the late 1970s and early 80s helped to prevent rebellion during the transition...

Police in Argentina have arrested three former officials suspected of human rights violations during the country's "Dirty War" , the former military junta's campaign against its domestic opponents - at least 13,000 of whom "disappeared"...

A court in Argentina has convicted a former police officer of human rights violations during the country's so-called "Dirty War" , handing down the first sentence since the Argentine Supreme Court ...

For the first time in 20 years, a former government official is on trial for crimes committed during the Dirty War in Argentina . The trial of Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz , former chief...