{"id":29239,"date":"2013-02-26T15:24:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T14:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/02\/26\/290925\/uruguay-protests-supreme-courts-ruling\/"},"modified":"2013-02-26T15:24:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T14:24:15","slug":"uruguay-protests-supreme-courts-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/uruguay-protests-supreme-courts-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Uruguay protests Supreme Court\u2019s ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Activists showing pictures of people who disappeared during the military rule in Uruguay on Auguest 11, 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Protests have been held against Uruguay\u2019s Supreme Court and its ruling against a law permitting investigations into crimes carried out by the previous dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Supreme Court after it ruled that the law allowing investigations into human rights abuses from the 1973-1985 dictatorship would be in violation of the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Supreme Court said a law passed in 2011 by Uruguay\u2019s Congress that made such investigations or prosecutions possible despite a 1986 amnesty law, was unconstitutional. The court also re-established the amnesty.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2011, in a controversial move, the Uruguayan Congress adopted a law that eliminated the effects of the amnesty law which protected police and military personnel from being prosecuted over human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>The new law also repealed a statute of limitations that aimed at preventing victims of human rights abuses from being able to file criminal complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Under the military rule, Uruguay had the largest number of political prisoners in the world, and some 200 people were kidnapped and killed.<\/p>\n<p>SZH\/PKH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span>Activists showing pictures of people who disappeared during the military rule in Uruguay on Auguest 11, 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Protests have been held against Uruguay&rsquo;s Supreme Court and its ruling against a law permitting investigations into crimes carried out by the previous dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Supreme Court after it ruled that the law allowing investigations into human rights abuses from the 1973-1985 dictatorship would be in violation of the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Supreme Court said a law passed in 2011 by Uruguay&rsquo;s Congress that made such investigations or prosecutions possible despite a 1986 amnesty law, was unconstitutional. The court also re-established the amnesty.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2011, in a controversial move, the Uruguayan Congress adopted a law that eliminated the effects of the amnesty law which protected police and military personnel from being prosecuted over human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>The new law also repealed a statute of limitations that aimed at preventing victims of human rights abuses from being able to file criminal complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Under the military rule, Uruguay had the largest number of political prisoners in the world, and some 200 people were kidnapped and killed.<\/p>\n<p>SZH\/PKH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}