The Human Rights Secretariat is a plaintiff in the trial, which is being held online and streamed on the San Martin Court’s YouTube channel. A member of the Group of the Eight — Peronist congressmen who cut ties with general Perón in 1974 — Muñiz Barreto was kidnapped alongside Fernández on February 16, 1977. Muñiz Barreto died at the scene, but Fernández was able to get out of the vehicle and escape. In 2008, a federal court formally requested that Congress impeach him, after which he was arrested for crimes against humanity. Since then, he has been convicted in three different trials for severe violations of human rights during State terrorism, and received life sentences in all cases.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald August 11, 2023 19:50 UTC