INR WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS OF DEVELOPMENTS IN HUMAN RIGHTS NO. 24, SEPTEMBER 27, 1977 [SANITIZED] - 1977/09/27

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Keywords: 1977-1981
• Keywords: DEVELOPMENTS
• Keywords: HUMAN RIGHTS
• Keywords: INR
• Keywords: IRM PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
• Keywords: WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00724489
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: September 27, 1977

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INR WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS
OF DEVELOPMENTS IN HUMAN RIGHTS
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Argentina
'Rights* Update. In a review of recent human rights devel-
opments, Embassy Buenos Aires concludes that US rights con-
cerns expressed during the August visits of high-level US
officials and President Videla's trip to Washington will
strengthen his hand vis-a-vis the hardliners and reinforce
his resolve to curb abuses committed by renegade security
personnel. At the same time, however; Videla must avoid
policies which wduld make him vulnerable to charges of being
"soft" on terrorism.
The Embassy also reports:
--continued kidnappings, with the Alfredo Bravo
(September 8) and Deutsch family (August 27) cases
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heading the list; both detentions have been offi-
cially acknowledged;
--intensified activity by private human rights groups
on behalf of disappeared persons;
--official banning of an.anti-Semitic book without
any prodding from the Jewish community, although
Jewish leaders claim that other offensive litera-
ture is still being sold; and
--continuing trials for persons accused of
offenses--with light sentences for those
ously linked to subversive activity, and
sentences or releases for some prisoners
cooperated with the police.
security
only tenu-
reduced
who have
The kidnapping of Alfredo Bravo, labor leader and human
rights activist, aggravated moderate/hardline disagreements
because it is widely believed that the Navy orchestrated his
kidnapping in order to embarrass Videla while he was in
Washington. Whether or not.Videla holds the Navy responsible
for the Bravo abduction, he told journalists on September 21
that he was tired of having to assume responsibility for slach
acts, and he would personally act against the perpetrators
of such offenses. (CONFIDENTIAL, Buenos Aires 6791 of
September 13, 7059 of September 21, and 7119 of September 22)
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