Ex-Argentine president fights extradition

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CNN/AP

updated 3 hours, 35 minutes ago
Ex-Argentine president fights extradition

MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Former Argentine President Isabel Peron appeared Monday in a Spanish court to fight a request for her extradition over human rights abuses during her rule, arguing she is frail and protected by having Spanish citizenship.

Isabel Peron, 77 -- the third wife of three-time President Juan Domingo Peron -- ruled Argentina after the strongman's death for 20 chaotic months until a March 1976 coup.

She has lived quietly in exile in Madrid in the decades since her ouster, but Spanish authorities arrested and briefly held her in January 2007.

Spain is acting on two extradition requests from Argentine judges. They want to question her over the disappearance of a leftist activist named Hector Aldo Fagetti Gallego in February 1976 and over death squad activity during her rule.

Argentine prosecutors said at least 1,500 people were killed or went missing as a result of the Argentine Anti-communist Alliance, or "Triple A," death squad during Peron's rule. Some call this the earliest origins of the "dirty war" against leftist dissent under the subsequent military juntas.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/04/14/argentina.peron.ap/index.html

[Arctic Dave]

1. Fuck that! You are never too old or too frail to face human rights violations!

[L. Coyote]

2. George Bush Sr. May Face Charges: Conspiring to Kidnap and Murder Political Activists

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