BUENOS AIRES, Apr 14. A court in Buenos Aires was sentenced Thursday to life imprisonment last Argentine dictator, Reynaldo Bignone, for crimes against humanity committed against ten opponents during the last military government between 1976 and 1983. Specifically, the Federal Court in San Martin has given the maximum sentence to recognize Bignone involvement in illegal deprivation of liberty, torture and disappearances that occurred during his administration 'de facto'.
Bignone and was sentenced last year to 25 years in prison by the same court for cases of kidnapping and torture during the dictatorship occurred in the military headquarters at Campo de Mayo, a notorious torture center where an estimated 5,000 people were detained. Along with Bignone, have also been sentenced to life imprisonment on Escobar's former police chief Luis Patti, and former agent of the military intelligence services Martín Rodríguez, also for crimes against humanity.
Patti, 57, was not present at the meeting and has followed the trial from an ambulance parked near the building, due to a stroke suffered last year. For the former Commissioner Escobar Juan Fernando Meneghini, also charged in this process, the court has handed down a sentence of six years of house arrest.
These statements raise to 204 the number of people convicted of crimes against humanity since the annulment of the laws of impunity, according to the Attorney General's Office collected by the newspaper "Clarín". A reading of the verdict came activists and personalities such as Secretary of National Human Rights, Eduardo Luis Duhalde, or spokesman of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto. 
Bignone and was sentenced last year to 25 years in prison by the same court for cases of kidnapping and torture during the dictatorship occurred in the military headquarters at Campo de Mayo, a notorious torture center where an estimated 5,000 people were detained. Along with Bignone, have also been sentenced to life imprisonment on Escobar's former police chief Luis Patti, and former agent of the military intelligence services Martín Rodríguez, also for crimes against humanity.
Patti, 57, was not present at the meeting and has followed the trial from an ambulance parked near the building, due to a stroke suffered last year. For the former Commissioner Escobar Juan Fernando Meneghini, also charged in this process, the court has handed down a sentence of six years of house arrest.
These statements raise to 204 the number of people convicted of crimes against humanity since the annulment of the laws of impunity, according to the Attorney General's Office collected by the newspaper "Clarín". A reading of the verdict came activists and personalities such as Secretary of National Human Rights, Eduardo Luis Duhalde, or spokesman of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto.
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