Madrid - The Spanish government Friday gave the green light for the extradition to Argentina of a former senior police officer on charges of human rights violations during the Latin American country's 1976-83 military dictatorship, government sources said. Jorge Alberto Soza, 73, was detained near the eastern Spanish city of Valencia in July.
He is suspected of involvement in 18 cases of abduction and torture of alleged government opponents while he was assistant police commissioner in Neuquen, Argentina, from 1975 to 1977.
Soza, who has Argentine and Spanish citizenship, moved to Spain in 1992.
Human rights groups say tens of thousands of people disappeared during Argentina's military dictatorship.
Several of the suspects have been arrested in Spain. The highest- profile case was that of Argentine former naval officer Adolfo Scilingo, who was tried in Spain and sentenced to more than 600 years in prison in 2005.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/311500,spain-to-extradite-argentine-ex-policeman-on-human-rights-charges.html.
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