And it couldn’t have happened to a nicer person. Unfortunately, being dead, Febr\u00e9s will now be unable to reveal the whereabouts of babies stolen from political prisoners and given to military families, or the whereabouts of the bodies of the many killed during the regime’s War On Terror\u00ae…<\/p>\n
Buenos Aires Herald<\/em>, December 14, 2007:<\/p>\n Former coast guard officer H\u00e9ctor Febr\u00e9s, who was on trial for crimes against humanity during the last [1976–1983] dictatorship, was found dead<\/a> [from] unknown causes yesterday morning inside his cell in the Tigre district, Buenos Aires province, only four days before his trial verdict was to be read out.<\/p>\n [Febr\u00e9s was the first to be prosecuted for crimes committed at the military dictatorship\u2019s main prison, beginning in 1976.]<\/p>\n Aged 66, Febr\u00e9s was serving prison at a coast guard base pending the court\u2019s final finding. Security guards said that he had dinner as usual on Sunday night, later talked to his wife, and went to bed. Yesterday morning, guards noticed that he did not wake up for breakfast, so they broke into his room and found his corpse lying on the bed.<\/p>\n Febr\u00e9s was accused of torturing prisoners at the Naval Mechanics School in Buenos Aires, known as ESMA, and the prosecution had asked for life imprisonment.<\/p>\n Cyanide death of jailed Dirty War defendant causes uproar in Argentina<\/a> BUENOS AIRES, Argentina: Police detained the wife and two grown children of a former coast guard officer who died mysteriously in jail amid a dictatorship-era human rights trial, hours after an autopsy found cyanide in his blood, a judge said Friday.<\/p>\n Hector Febres, 66, was accused of kidnapping and torturing dissidents during Argentina’s past military dictatorship. He was found dead in his cell at a navy brig on Monday, four days before an expected verdict in his high-profile case.<\/p>\n Official reports initially suggested Febres had died of natural causes, but autopsy results released midweek revealed a large quantity cyanide in his bloodstream \u2014 alarming human rights activists who feared he may have been poisoned to silence his testimony and prompting the court to swiftly open an investigation…<\/p>\n See also<\/strong> : Uki Gona, Justice Still Delayed in Argentina<\/a>, Time<\/em>, November 28, 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And it couldn’t have happened to a nicer person. Unfortunately, being dead, Febr\u00e9s will now be unable to reveal the whereabouts of babies stolen from political prisoners and given to military families, or the whereabouts of the bodies of the … Continue reading
\nThe Associated Press<\/strong>
\nInternational Herald Tribune<\/em>
\nDecember 14, 2007<\/p>\n