8 sentenced for rights abuses

Seven former army officers and an ex-police official were convicted and sentenced to at least 20 years in prison for human rights abuses during Argentina’s bloody dictatorship.

Ex-army commander Cristino Nicolaides, who received 25 years, and seven other former officers were found guilty on a range of charges linked to the kidnapping, torture and disappearance of leftist guerrillas seized by the country’s military regime.

Those sentenced with Nicolaides were former army officers Jorge Arias Duval, Juan Carlos Gualco, Carlos Fontana, Pascual Guerrieri, Santiago Hoya, Walter Roldan and former police officer Julio Simon.