Decree Law No. 25708 on treason proceedings
Decree that established procedural norms for the crime of treason, enacted after the 1992 coup d'état. It was part of the anti-terrorist legislation that expanded police and military powers, later questioned for violations of fundamental rights.
Decree Law No. 25708, enacted on September 10, 1992, established the procedural rules for the crime of treason. This norm was part of the set of anti-terrorist legislation enacted after the coup d'état of April 1992. The decree was part of a legislative scheme that granted broad powers to police and military authorities in the investigation and prosecution of terrorism-related crimes. This legislation was subsequently challenged for its incompatibility with constitutional principles and international human rights treaties. The Constitutional Court and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights pointed out that the crime of treason, as it was configured, was nothing more than a modality of the crime of terrorism, allowing the same act to be tried alternatively by military courts or the ordinary jurisdiction.