07/25/12: CNN reports Argentina this week moved forward in a pair of cases alleging human rights abuses during the country’s dictatorship by having a fugitive returned to the country and refusing the extradition of a separate suspect. The two cases show the Argentinean government’s desire to render justice on their own soil for crimes committed during the 1976-1983 dictatorship. In the case of Alfredo Astiz, Argentina’s supreme court denied an extradition request that would have sent him to France; Astiz is accused in the disappearance of two French nuns, Alice Domon and Leonie Duquet. In the second case, another ex-military officer, Alejandro Duret, was expelled from Chile to face prison time in Argentina, officials said.

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