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May 10, 2013

Uruguay Sentences Military General to 28 Years for Dictatorship-Era Death 
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Uruguay has sentenced a military general to 28 years in prison for the
death of a professor nearly four decades ago. General Miguel Dalmao is
the first active general convicted of human rights violations during the
country’s dictatorship. He was in charge of a jail where political
activist and professor Nibia Sabalsagaray was found dead in 1974. Dalmao
claimed she hanged herself from a peg that was just four inches above
her head but her autopsy showed signs of torture. His lawyer told the
Associated Press he has already appealed Wednesday’s decision.

 

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