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Argentina abolished capital punishment for ordinary crimes in 1984 and abolished it for all crimes in 2008, supported by the president at the time, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Argentina voted in favor of the United Nations moratorium on the death penalty eight times, in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020.
National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (Spanish: Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas, CONADEP) was an Argentine organization created by President Raúl Alfonsín on 15 December 1983, shortly after his inauguration, to investigate the fate of the desaparecidos (victims of forced disappearance) and other human rights violations (see: Dirty War) performed during the ...
Carlos Eduardo Robledo Puch (born 19 January 1952), also known as The Angel of Death and The Black Angel, is an Argentine serial killer.He was convicted of at least eleven murders (including the killing of at least one accomplice), one attempted murder, seventeen robberies, involvement in one rape and one attempted rape, one count of sexual abuse, two kidnappings, and two thefts.
Willie Edwards was a black American man who on January 23, 1957, was killed by unknown members of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. His body was thrown into the Alabama River, Montgomery County, Alabama and was found three months later. [30] His murder remains unsolved. Murdered 3 months 1957 Joseph Augustus Zarelli: 4 United States of America
Enforced disappearances in Argentina (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Missing person cases in Argentina" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
According to the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons 8,961 persons disappeared between 1976 and 1983. Human rights groups in Argentina often cite a figure of 30,000 disappeared; Amnesty International estimates 20,000. [2]
On 5 July, a formal missing persons report was filed, which was assigned to Rodolfo De Lucía, head of the 20th UFI in Bahía Blanca. [39] [40] The family of the disappeared criticized police action, pointing out how hard they made it to file the report, and the fact that the police took note of one of Astudillo Castro's friends testimonial on a deli piece of paper.
On 2 June 2023, Cecilia Marlene Strzyzowski, a 28-year-old Argentine woman, went missing in Resistencia, Chaco. [1] She was allegedly murdered in an act of femicide. [2] Among the main suspects and defendants are her partner, César Sena, along with his parents Emerenciano Sena and Marcela Acuña who were candidates in the 2023 provincial elections in Chaco Province.