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Weekly Report - 3 October 2006
ARGENTINA: Dirty War witness "disappears"
Human rights groups are calling him number 30,001, the first under a democracy. The construction worker Jorge Julio López, 77, went missing on 18 September, the day before Miguel Etchecolatz, a retired police chief, was given life imprisonment for murder, torture and kidnappings committed during the dirty war. López was a key witness in the case.
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