Argentine activist sentenced to probation, remains in jail


  • World
  • Thursday, 29 Dec 2016

A woman holds a portrait of Milagro Sala, the leader of the Tupac Amaru social welfare group, as supporters hear Sala's trial in San Salvador de Jujuy, with charges ranging from intimidation to corruption, on a radio outside a Justice building in Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 28, 2016. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine social activist Milagro Sala was sentenced to three years of probation on Wednesday on charges of inciting violence, though she will remain jailed on other charges in a case that has drawn scrutiny from international human rights groups.

Sala, leader of the Tupac Amaru social welfare group in the northern Jujuy province, was sentenced to three years probation on charges she encouraged attendees at a protest she had organised in 2009 to attack then-Senator Gerardo Morales, currently Jujuy's governor. Sala is expected to appeal the verdict.

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