In Argentina, a former navy officer on trial for torturing political prisoners has died just four days before his verdict was to be announced. Hector Febres was the first to be prosecuted for crimes committed at the military dictatorship’s main prison, ESMA, beginning in 1976. Prosecutor Pedro Dinani said Febres’s death hurts efforts to uncover information on thousands of the disappeared and their children.

Pedro Dinani: “This witness takes with him a lot of information on the whereabouts of the children, and the resting place of hundreds and hundreds of the disappeared from ESMA remains unknown.”