A pro-government majority on Argentina’s Judicial Council voted 7-4 to remove Judge Luis Maria Cabral from the panel that is reviewing the constitutionality of the Iran-Argentina Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) about the AMIA bombing. The court was set to hold … Read More ...
Police video shows evidence contaminated immediately after Nisman’s death
An Argentine news program has broadcast a video recorded by investigators at the home of Alberto Nisman after he was found dead on January 18, 2015. The video shows the crime scene was crowded with people in all the rooms … Read More ...
Nisman Complaint against Kirchner, Timerman and others is archived
Last week, the Argentine Court of Cassation formally archived the January complaint filed by prosecutor Alberto Nisman – days before he was found dead – accusing President Cristina Kirchner, Foreign Minister Hector Timerman and a group of pro-government activists of … Read More ...
Argentine Politician Carrió, U.S. Senators, U.S. Jewish Delegation and Canadian Law Society All Voice Concern about Nisman’s Death
There were several noteworthy developments yesterday regarding the late prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, among them:
National Deputy Elisa Carrió’s testimony about circumstances surrounding Nisman’s death:
National Deputy Elisa Carrió testified before prosecutor Viviana Fein on May 4, 2015. La Nacion, Clarin … Read More ...
Timerman Resigns from AMIA; Coroners’ Inquest into Nisman’s Death Continues
Argentina’s Foreign Minister Hector Timerman announced his resignation as a member of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) – the target of the 1994 terrorist bombing that killed 85 people, and for which the Argentine justice system has indicted several … Read More ...
Update: Moldes’s Petition Denied; Stiusso Flees; New Wiretaps
As had been widely expected, pro-Kirchner prosecutor Javier De Luca announced yesterday that he would not pursue Alberto Nisman’s complaint against Argentine President Cristina Kirchner and others. De Luca issued an opinion which argued that, even if the Memorandum Of … Read More ...
Inaugural Alberto Nisman Award for Courage Recipient Robert M. Morgenthau Receives Award
Yesterday, former Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau accepted the inaugural Alberto Nisman Award for Courage during the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’s Washington Forum.
Argentine Prosecutor Alberto Nisman pursued terrorists and justice relentlessly, even while his evidence trail more … Read More ...
AMIA Trial To be Held on August 6, 2015
Late last week, the Argentine Federal Oral Court No. 2 decided that the trial on the attempted cover-up of the 1994 terrorist attack on the AMIA Jewish community cultural center in Buenos Aires will begin on August 6, 2015.
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