Argentina: Far-Fetched ‘Treason’ Charges Against Ex-Officials

(Washington, DC) – The December 6, 2017, indictment by Judge Claudio Bonadio of former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, her Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman, and 10 others, for “treason” and “concealment” points to no evidence that would seem to substantiate those charges, Human Rights Watch said today. Bonadio accused the defendants of conspiring with Iran to undermine the criminal investigation of the 1994 terrorist attack on the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA), in Buenos Aires,which killed 85 people and injured 300 others. The charges refer to a 2013 “memorandum of understanding”…

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