Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Argentine authorities have arrested three former policemen in connection with what became known as flights of death during military rule.

They are accused of being the crew when French nun Leonie Duquet and rights activist Azucena Villaflor were thrown from a plane in 1977.Their bodies washed ashore and were buried in an unmarked grave until their remains were identified in 2005.Hundreds of political prisoners are known to have died this way.A judge on Tuesday ordered the arrest of former police officers Enrique Jose De Saint Georges,...

Monday, 9 May 2011

Bedoun Tortured To Confess Drug Smuggling

The Criminal Court has set May 8 for hearing in a case involving a captain working at the Directorate General of Drugs Control who allegedly tortured a Bedoun while in custody.The Public Prosecution accused the officer of beating the Bedoun, with assistance from other police officers, to force him to confess crimes he allegedly committed. The beating resulted in serious injuries to him, as mentioned...

Monday, 2 May 2011

Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the 11 September 2001 attacks and the world's most wanted man, has been killed

Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the 11 September 2001 attacks and the world's most wanted man, has been killed in a US operation in north-western Pakistan, Barack Obama has announced."Justice has been done," the US president said in a statement that America has been waiting a decade to hear.US special forces launched a helicopter-borne assault on a closely guarded compound in Abbottabad, 30 miles north-east...

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