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Article: Argentina's Supreme Court upholds life sentence against ex-Chilean agent in 1974 car bombing

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OSCAR SERRAT, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
08-24-2004
Dateline: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
Argentina's Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a life sentence against an agent of Chile's former dictatorship, letting stand his homicide conviction for a 1974 car bombing.

The high court voted 5-3 against an appeal by Enrique Arancibia Clavel, who was found guilty in 2000 of planning the assassination of a former Chilean army chief in Buenos Aires.

Legal analysts said the ruling, announced by court officials, could stand as an important precedent in the cases of leaders of Argentina's former military dictatorship now facing prosecution for human rights abuses.

Arancibia Clavel, a Chilean, was a ...

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