Overview

• The Federal Criminal Cassation Court’s Sala II dismissed appeals by Víctor Hermes Brusa and María Eva Aebi, confirming eight-year and six-and-a-half-year prison terms for crimes against humanity.
• Judges Ángela Ledesma, Alejandro Slokar and Guillermo Yacobucci ruled unanimously, with Slokar labeling the abuses as genocide and highlighting the judiciary’s active role in legitimizing dictatorship repression.
• Brusa was found to have tortured detainees in clandestine centers under the guise of a judicial secretary to force prewritten confessions, while Aebi participated in the aggravated detention of a minor and a pregnant woman.
• The court stressed the need to preserve and digitize trial records to ensure public access, uphold collective memory and guard against denialist narratives.
• The decision reflects Argentina’s imprescriptible approach to dictatorship-era prosecutions and aligns with UN and Inter-American Commission calls for truth, justice and reparation.