News Briefs: Justice

* Argentina: Three people were convicted for illegally adopting a baby during the “Dirty War” period.

* Mexico: Canadian Brenda Martin was found guilty in a Mexican court after she was imprisoned for two years without trial.

* Colombia: Pension and health benefits are to be extended to same-sex couples according to a verdict by the country’s Constitutional Court.

* Brazil: Police in Rio de Janeiro arrested a Credit Suisse executive and charged him with laundering money for wealthy Brazilians.

Image- Times Online (“Maria Eugenia Sampallo leaves the Buenos Aires court. Children of the enemies of the junta were given to its backers”)

Sources- JURIST, Reuters Africa, National Post, AFP

Daily Headlines: March 20, 2008

* Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper blasted Mexican authorities for imprisoning a Canadian woman without trial for over two years.

* “We are going to respond with the full force of the law” declared a Chilean government spokesman after the capital city of Santiago experienced three bomb threats in two days.

* Peruvian police claimed to have captured a pair of Colombian guerillas near the border between both countries.

* A deal between Ireland and Argentina provides young adults an easier chance to work and live in each country.

Sources- Reuters, Bloomberg, Belfast Telegraph, Reuters Canada

Image- Edmonton Journal (“Brenda Martin inside the Puente Grande Women’s Prison in Guadalajara, Mexico”)