Sentenced to 640 years in prison.
MercoPressA former Argentine navy officer who admitted to participating in “death flights,”Â? in which naked detainees were thrown from planes during the country’s military dictatorship, was convicted yesterday by a Spanish court of committing crimes against humanity.
A three-judge panel said Adolfo Scilingo, 58, took an active part in the “dirty war”Â? drive to crush leftist dissent during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship. His trial was Spain’s first under a law which says crimes against humanity can be tried in this country — even if they are alleged to have been committed elsewhere.
Prosecutors had sought a jail term of 9,138 years…

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