Justice on Wednesday suspended Argentina March 2 trial against the former general Luciano Menendez for crimes against humanity because the defendant, who has four life sentences, had to be hospitalized with symptoms of hypertension, a source judgmental.
"It had a peak pressure and the health system's physician advised her placement," the secretary of Human Rights Federal Court of Tucumán (north) where he was tried for the murder of five people during the dictatorship (1976 -83).
Menendez (83 years), former head of the Third Army Corps jurisdiction over central and northern Afghanistan, one of the regions hardest hit by the State terrorism at the time, and was convicted on four occasions to life imprisonment sentence which meets in ordinary prison since December 2009.
Former repressor, problems began to manifest hypertension "for two or three days," said the judicial officer it was decided to hospitalization in a private hospital in the capital of Tucumán.
The trial, which was expected to eyewitness accounts, was initially suspended until Thursday.
In the case, judged by the events of May 20, 1976 in Tucumán, where a panel of Army troops and police stormed a provincial home and killed five suspected members of the guerrilla group Montoneros and then the remains inhuman mass graves.
This trial is also accused former police intelligence chief Roberto Albornoz Tucumán, sentenced to life imprisonment in another case for crimes against humanity.
Menendez and was sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of unlawful deprivation of liberty, imposition of torment, torture and killings followed the death ..
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