A court in Argentina has convicted 11 former military, police and government officials of crimes against humanity committed during the country’s last dictatorship in a sprawling trial that heard, for the first time, about atrocities suffered by trans women.
The three-year case focused on the forced disappearances, torture, rapes and homicides that occurred at or were connected to four clandestine detention and torture centres located in police investigative units on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. They were the San Justo Brigade and three others known as the Banfield pit, the Quilmes pit and “El Infierno” – or “hell”.
