Comment on Uruguay president to annul decrees suspending prosecutions of former dictatorship officials

Uruguay president to annul decrees suspending prosecutions of former dictatorship officials

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay’s government says it will remove obstacles to human rights prosecutions against scores of officials of a past dictatorship. Earlier administrations issued decrees stating that roughly 80 cases were covered by an amnesty law. Presidential aide Alberto Brescia now says the government will annul those rulings. Congressional allies of President Jose Mujica tried and failed to revoke the amnesty law in May.

 

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