Argentines Fight Court’s Leniency for Human Rights Crimes
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On Friday, the Supreme Court said it would gather all the pending appeals in its docket to apply the "two for one"
law to crimes against humanity cases, opening the door to a new ruling on the issue as early as next month.
Two of the three justices who signed on to the decision were appointed by Mr. Macri, who took office in 2015,
and activists say the ruling fits a pattern of his administration’s tamping down efforts to seek justice for the atrocities carried out during the dictatorship.
Nora Cortiñas said that This government has never been interested in human rights,
The demonstrations were in response to a Supreme Court ruling this month
that reduced the sentence of a man convicted of crimes against humanity during the country’s military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.
The attorney general’s office, an independent arm of the government now run by an ally of the previous administration, estimated
that 278 people, or 52 percent of those sentenced for human rights crimes who are currently detained, could have seen a reduction in their sentence based on the Supreme Court ruling.
While it now appears very unlikely that hundreds of human rights abusers will be leaving prison ahead of schedule, activists said the court’s decision
exemplified the way in which Mr. Macri had adopted a less aggressive approach to dealing with one of the darkest chapters in Argentina’s history.