Mexican General Handed Longest Ever Sentence for Torturing and Killing a Man Agence France-Presse
go to original May 2, 2016

One thousand people protested in Ojinanga in 2008 against abuses by soldiers. (Mexico News Daily)

A Mexican army general has been sentenced to 52 years and six months in prison for ordering the torture of a suspect and the incineration of his body, authorities said last week.

The Federal Judicial Council said the general, whose name was not released, ordered that the suspect be tortured for several hours to get information about a soldier's death in July 2008 in the northern state of Chihuahua.

The victim was taken to a military installation, where he was tied up and soaked in water in order to receive electric shocks, while other suspects were being interrogated.

...The court that sentenced the general ordered the defense ministry to offer a public apology, accept responsibility and vow that such acts will not be repeated. The general and defense ministry were ordered to pay $14,500 to relatives of the victim.

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