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Former Judge Maria Del Carmen Roqueta Passed Away
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"Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo dismisses with enormous sadness former judge Maria del Carmen Roqueta, from a broad trajectory and committed to human rights. Roqueta condemned nine repressors for the Plan of appropriation of minors during the last dictatorship," wrote the organization of Human Rights. Read more
María del Carmen Roqueta, the former judge recognized for presiding over the court that sentenced Jorge Rafael Videla to 50 years in prison for the systematic theft of babies during the dictatorship, died on Sunday because of a disease he had suffered a long time ago. The former judicial officer, with a strong commitment to the restoration of the identity of persons, was the one who handed down the maximum penalty for the dictator Videla for kid…
the former judge led key judgments against repressors such as Videla, Astiz and Acosta, and left a decisive mark in the process of Memory, Truth and Justice in Argentina. The farewell of his remains will be this Sunday in Casa América.
Buenos Aires, 29 March (NA) - This Sunday the former judge María del Carmen Roqueta passed away. Roqueta presided in 2012 over the court that sentenced Jorge Rafael Videla to 50 years in prison for the systematic plan of appropriation of babies. He was also the president of the court that sentenced Alfredo Astiz and Tigre Acosta to life imprisonment a year earlier, in 2011, in what turned out to be one of the first strong sentences after the reo…
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