{"id":68940,"date":"2023-02-08T09:30:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T04:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/?p=68940"},"modified":"2023-02-08T02:45:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T21:45:41","slug":"argentina-rugby-players-sentenced-in-high-profile-beating-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/argentina-rugby-players-sentenced-in-high-profile-beating-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina rugby players sentenced in high-profile beating death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUENOS AIRES, Argentina \u2013 February 7 (ONLINE) Eight amateur rugby players have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for a 2020 murder that shocked Argentina, after an 18-year-old was beaten to death in what critics described as a racist and classist attack.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the eight defendants \u2013 all between the ages of 21 and 23 \u2013 were handed sentences of life imprisonment on Monday in the death of Fernando Baez Sosa, a law student from a Paraguayan-born family. The other three each received 15 years for playing a \u201csecondary\u201d role in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The verdicts came after a four-week trial in a court in the town of Dolores, 220km (140 miles) south of the capital Buenos Aires, that dominated national headlines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustice does not repair but alleviates,\u201d the governor of Buenos Aires province, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, wrote on Twitter as the sentences were announced. \u201cI deeply hope this verdict brings you some comfort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for the Baez Sosa family have said they are considering whether to appeal the 15-year sentences, which fell short of the maximum of life imprisonment they sought against all the defendants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen evaluating the sentences, I think this is not justice,\u201d lawyer Fernando Burlando was quoted in Argentina\u2019s La Nacion newspaper as saying. <\/p>\n<p>He called Monday\u2019s ruling \u201cthe first step\u201d in the family\u2019s pursuit of justice.<\/p>\n<p>Baez Sosa, the only child of a bricklayer and a caregiver born in Paraguay, was attacked on January 18, 2020, outside a nightclub in the coastal resort city of Villa Gesell, 376km (234 miles) south of the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUENOS AIRES, Argentina \u2013 February 7 (ONLINE) Eight amateur rugby players have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for a 2020 murder that shocked Argentina, after an 18-year-old was beaten to death in what critics described as a racist and classist attack. 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