Tag: Alberto Nisman

• Friday, January 23rd 2015 - 06:51 UTC

  Nisman's death not suicide but a plot against her government, alleges Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Thursday morning took to social media once again to express her thoughts on the death of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman making reference to “the suicide which -I am sure- was not a suicide.”

• Thursday, January 22nd 2015 - 07:23 UTC

  A third passage to Nisman's apartment and a locksmith who testified the service entrance was not locked

  

  Investigators found a footprint and a fingerprint in a third –recently discovered- access to prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s apartment, which became the latest clues in the investigation of the death of the AMIA special prosecutor late on Sunday.

• Thursday, January 22nd 2015 - 07:17 UTC

  Suspicious death in Argentina by The New York Times editorial board

  

  The following editorial was published on Wednesday by The New York Times addressing recent events surrounding the mysterious death in Buenos Aires of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was investigating the still unsolved case of the July 1994 attack on the Argentine Jewish community center, AMIA. He had been involved in the case for ten years and investigating an alleged Iranian connection.

• Wednesday, January 21st 2015 - 07:49 UTC

  AMIA/Nisman: a situation of unpredictable consequences, says Rosendo Fraga

  

  The death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman puts Argentina in a situation of unforeseeable outcome in which converge foreign policy, institutional functioning and local politics, according to Rosendo Fraga one of the country's most respected political analysts.

• Wednesday, January 21st 2015 - 07:29 UTC

  Argentina's Judiciary releases Nisman's complete prosecution charges against Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentina's judiciary released late Tuesday the complete version of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman's charges against President Cristina Fernandez, foreign minister Hector Timerman and other close officials, accusing them of 'conspiring a cover up of Iran's' alleged involvement in the bombing of the Jewish institution in Buenos Aires back in 1994, which killed 85 and injured 300.

• Wednesday, January 21st 2015 - 07:18 UTC

  Primary forensic test delivers no gun powder traces on Nisman's hands

  

  The forensic analysis on Argentina's AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s body confirmed that there were no traces of gunpowder on his hands. However, experts explained that it does not contradict suicide hypothesis.

• Wednesday, January 21st 2015 - 07:09 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community calls for a “truth and justice” rally at AMIA

  

  Argentina's Jewish communities still shocked after learning of the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s death, announced that a ceremony calling for 'truth and justice' has been scheduled for this Wednesday to demand for the “complete clarification of the circumstances” surrounding the prosecutor’s death.

• Tuesday, January 20th 2015 - 05:20 UTC

  Israel and Argentine Jewish organizations call for AMIA probe to continue

  

  Israel urged Argentine authorities on Monday to carry on with the work of a prosecutor who was found dead after having alleged a cover-up in the investigation of Iran over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre.

• Tuesday, January 20th 2015 - 05:10 UTC

  Opposition demands protection of Nisman's records; protest marches in Argentine cities

  

  A group of Argentine opposition senators and lawmakers went ahead on Monday with an informal meeting in Congress which prosecutor Alberto Nisman was expected to address and called for the official's alleged evidence relating to the AMIA case to be protected from interference.

• Tuesday, January 20th 2015 - 04:45 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez adds yet another conspiracy chapter to Nisman's death

  

  The usually verbose Argentine president Cristina Fernandez preferred a lengthy letter in Facebook to comment on special prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s death (suicide), arguing it was yet another tragic chapter of the ongoing confusion, question and lies that have surrounded for 21 years the AMIA case.