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Missing Argentine Trial Witness Found

Friday, December 29, 2006 11:43:54 PM

 In this file picture taken May 5, 2005, Luis Angel Gerez talks to reporters at Buenos Aires Congress after testifying against former police officer Luis Abelardo Patti. Gerez, a key witness in the trial of the ex-officer charged with torture during Argentina's military dictatorship has gone missing in Escobar, some 50 kms (around 30 miles) north of Buenos Aires, Argentina, relatives said Thursday. It is the second time in three months that a witness has disappeared during a human rights case stemming from the 1976-1983 dictatorship. He was last seen leaving a friend's home Wednesday night. (AP Photo/Rolandro Andrade Stracuzzi, File)BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - A key witness in a human rights trial stemming from Argentina's military dictatorship was found beaten Friday, two days after he went missing.

Luis Gerez, who has accused a former police chief of torturing him during the 1966-73 dictatorship, was found by a police patrol in a street of Garin, a town just north of Buenos Aires, said Leon Arslanian, the Buenos Aires security minister.

A friend who spoke to Gerez at a hospital, Alberto Fernandez de Rosa, said Gerez had been abducted by three men who had blindfolded, beat and burned him with cigarettes.


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