Human rights organization H.I.J.O.S. denounced that the Federal Penitentiary Service has asked the judiciary for authorization to transfer 19 men convicted of crimes against humanity from Ezeiza prison to a jail in Campo de Mayo, which they describe as a “VIP prison” because of its “privileged conditions.”

One of the convicts is Alfredo Astiz, known as “the Angel of Death,” one of the most feared torturers of Argentina’s last military dictatorship. Astiz, along with several of the repressors in question, was visited in jail by a group of deputies from ruling party La Libertad Avanza (LLA) last July. It emerged that the lawmakers and other actors were in talks to file bills to release dictatorship criminals into house arrest or even free them.

H.I.J.O.S. said that the proposed transfer constituted the next stage in an “impunity plan” following last........

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