The Santiago Appeals Court today confirmed prison sentences to four exagentes secret police of Augusto Pinochet for his role in the kidnapping qualified (disappearance) of Francisco Rozas Contador and Renato Sepulveda Guajardo, judicial sources said.
The courts rejected appeals by the defendants against the first instance judgment and upheld the sentence of 15 years and one day in prison against Brigadier Pedro Espinoza Bravo for both offenses.
He confirmed the sentence of 10 years and one day in prison for excoronel Rolf Wenderoth Pozo and Brigadier Miguel Krassnoff Marchenko, as qualified authors Sepulveda Guajardo kidnapping.
Retired General Raul Iturriaga Neumann received 10 years and one day as a criminal penalty, as the author of qualified Rozas counter kidnapping.
The four convicted were part of the leadership of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), Pinochet's secret police and accumulate convictions for 200 or more years in prison after being convicted on dozens of trials for human rights violations.
Furthermore, the appellate court upheld the acquittal of Urrich Gerardo Gonzalez, to his participation had been demonstrated in both crimes.
Renato Sepulveda Guajardo, a medical student at the University of Chile, with 21 years was arrested for his involvement in the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), the December 12, 1974 in the northern headquarters of the Faculty of Medicine, while he was in classes.
After his arrest, he was taken to the site known as "Venda Sexy" and then to the detention center "Villa Grimaldi".
Meanwhile, Francisco Javier Alejandro Rozas Contador, photographer of 22, also MIR, was arrested by DINA agents on December 20, 1974, from his home in the center of Santiago, was transferred to the barracks "Sell Sexy".
During the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990), according to official reports, about 3,200 Chileans were killed by state agents, of which 1,192 still listed as missing prisoners, and some 33,000 were tortured and imprisoned for political reasons.