Former Argentine president gets 25 years for crimes against humanity

Amnesty International, April 21, 2010

Reynaldo Bignone served as de facto president of Argentina in 1982 and 1983

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Amnesty International has welcomed the prison sentence handed to a former Argentine president responsible for crimes against humanity in the 1970s.

Reynaldo Bignone, a former military general, was found guilty of torture, murder and several kidnappings that occurred while he was commander of the notorious Campo de Mayo detention centre between 1976 and 1978.

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