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Argentina’s Intelligence Decree Faces Court Challenges Over New Detention Powers

Judges now face urgent requests to suspend the measure pending constitutional review.

Overview

  • Rights group CELS filed a federal amparo seeking to annul DNU 941/2025 and asked for an immediate injunction to pause its effects.
  • Opposition lawmakers and former officials submitted separate cases that could leap directly to the Supreme Court, with matters assigned to Judges Martín Cormick and Rita Alián.
  • The decree authorizes intelligence agents to aprehender persons during intelligence activities, in judicial assistance, or in cases of flagrancy, with immediate notification to security forces.
  • The government defends the DNU as a necessary rationalization that narrows roles, concentrates counterintelligence in the national security agency, and reduces overlap and risk.
  • The reform reshapes the system around the SIDE, the DNIC, and a Joint Staff intelligence directorate, adds a Subsecretary of Intelligence, revamps cyber bodies, and creates an Inspectoría General for internal oversight.