[NYTr] Paraguay: Military Court Frees Convicted Coup-Plotter
 
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 19:26:48 -0500 (CDT)


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Paraguay: Military Court Frees Convicted Coup-Plotter

Asuncion, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) A high Paraguayan military court
officially released former Gen. Lino Oviedo, who had been imprisoned
since 2004 in a ten-year sentence for an attempted coup. 

The immediate release of Lino Oviedo is because he has served more than
50 percent of his penal sentence, Col. Carlos Liseras, president of the
court that made the decision, said Thursday.

Recently Oviedo had achieved parole by habeas corpus for the trials due
to the death of former Vice President Luis Maria Argana and the
massacre of 1999.

He was confined to a military prison outside Asuncion after he was
found guilty for the coup attempt against the government of Juan Carlos
Wasmosy in April 1996, for which he was sentenced to 10 years.

In June 2004, he turned himself into Paraguayan justice, insisting he
had been the victim of a conspiracy, after he had been in exile as a
political refugee first in Argentina, and later in Brazil.

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