Former Argentine dictator Reynaldo Bignone has been sentenced to life in jail for sanctioning human rights abuses between 1976 and 1983.
The sentence was handed down by a federal court in Buenos Aires.
Reynaldo Bignone, Argentina’s last dictator before the country’s return to democracy in 1983, was found guilty of crimes committed against 23 people, including seven women who were pregnant at the time of their arrest and detention. Their children were born in secret jails and were taken away from their parents.
The 85-year-old Bignone is already serving three life sentences for other crimes committed during the years of dictatorship, when, according to official figures, 18,000 people disappeared without a trace. Local human rights groups contest the figure though insisting that up to 30,000 disappeared.
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