Claim 150

The junta's Communiqué No. 19 provided for imprisonment for an indefinite period for anyone who disseminated or reproduced communiqués or pictures from organizations it had outlawed.

Published 2026-09-22. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement: The junta's Communiqué No. 19 provided for imprisonment for an indefinite period for anyone who disseminated or reproduced communiqués or pictures from organizations it had outlawed.
Field: stated_justification
Value: Communiqué No. 19 penalty
About: incident 1976-argentina-junta-press-decrees
Source: Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Argentina, Chapter VII: The Right to Freedom of Investigation, Opinion, Expression and Dissemination
Publisher: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States
Method: primary document
Checked: 2026-09-22
Confidence: medium
Status: current
Source date: 1980

Quotation from the source

he, who, by whatever means, disseminates or reproduces communiqués or pictures from...illegal associations...shall be punished, by imprisonment for an indefinite time period