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NAME: ARG DIRTY WAR 20060805I TAPE: EF06/0706 IN_TIME: 10:04:14:18 DURATION: 00:01:59:18 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Buenos Aires, 4 August 2006 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 1. Wide shot of Buenos Aires Federal Court 2. Pan right over pictures of missing people 3. Demonstrators outside the court 4. Close up of banner with pictures of the family 5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish), Vox Pop with a member of Mothers de Plaza de Mayo (Human rights group) "We are here with the mothers to accompany them in giving support to Buscarita Roa. So that after so many years fighting for justice, we can take this first step to justice." 6. Close up of banner 7. Estala de Carloto walking with victim's relatives to the federal court 8. Wide shot of news media trying to enter the court 9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Buscarita Roa, victim's mother: "I was hoping he would speak, I don't think he regrets it, but I hoped he would speak about things that were left unsaid and were never bought to light - that he would give names, what happened to my son, what happened to my daughter-in-law, where are the remains of my son and my daughter-in-law." 10. Wide shot of relatives waiting outside the court 11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Horacio Vervisky, President of SELS (Legal and Social Centre) "This is the first trial which finishes with a sentence being handed out after the Punto Final laws (law established to give amnesty to human rights violators during Argentina's Dirty War) were abolished. This is a case that was brought to court by the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo for the kidnapping of a minor and then the centre of legal and social studies asked the grandmothers to participate in the cause for the other part of the case." 12.Pan left of relatives STORYLINE: A former Argentine police officer was jailed Friday for human rights abuses in connection with the 1978 disappearance of a Chilean man and his Argentine wife during Argentina's military dictatorship. Julio Simon was sentenced to 25-years in prison. It was the first conviction since 1980s amnesty laws protecting former military and police officials accused of dictatorship-era atrocities was overturned by the Supreme Court last year. Simon was a sub-official of the Federal Police and was found guilty in the disappearance of Jose Poblete and his wife Gertrudis Hlaczik and taking away their daughter Claudia Victoria, who was just eight months old at the time. Poblete's mother Buscarita Roa said she was hoping Simon would speak in court. "I don't think he regrets it, but I hoped he would speak about things that were left unsaid and were never bought to light - that he would give names, what happened to my son, what happened to my daughter-in-law, where are the remains of my son and my daughter-in-law," she said. The Supreme Court last year declared laws pardoning military dictatorship officials, be they military or police, to be unconstitutional. Human rights group Mothers de Plaza de Mayo hailed the ruling as a victory, saying it marked a step towards obtaining justice after the 1976 to 1983 dictatorship. Prosecutors say the military rulers waged a systematic crackdown on dissidents which became known as Argentina's "Dirty War."