Four former members of Argentina’s air force were sentenced to 25 years each for committing crimes against humanity with 133 victims during the last military dictatorship.

During the hearing, which came two years after the start of the trial, the judges informed they had concluded in their ruling that the charges effectively were crimes against humanity.

Julio César Leston, Juan Carlos Herrera, Juan José Zyska and Ernesto Rafale Lynch were convicted for dozens of counts of forced imprisonment and torture, aggravated for using violence and threats, and due to the fact that many of the victims were being politically persecuted.

Two of them were also convicted for sexual assault and rape.

Herrera was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault of five women and one man, as well as of raping seven women and one man, aggravated due to the use of force or intimidation. Herrera raped most of his victims on more than one occasion.

Lynch was convicted with aggravated sexual assault of one woman and one........

© Buenos Aires Herald