US EditionArgentine court allows ex-President Fernández to serve corruption sentence at home
- On June 17, 2025, an Argentine federal court authorized former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to begin serving her six-year prison term for fraud from her home in Buenos Aires.
- In 2022, Kirchner was found guilty of fraud related to the approval of government contracts for a close associate during her time in office from 2007 to 2015, in a case often viewed as politically contentious.
- The court mandated Kirchner wear an electronic anklet, remain at her residence except for authorized reasons, and avoid behavior disturbing neighborhood peace amid solidarity protests.
- Her lawyer Gregorio Dalbon declared on X that "THE LAW PREVAILED" and "THE PEOPLE PREVAILED," as supporters maintained a near-constant vigil outside her home.
- Kirchner’s house arrest marks her as the second ex-leader sentenced to prison since Argentina's 1983 democracy transition, raising ongoing division and debate over judicial bias in the country.
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Buenos Aires. The justice system decided that the two-time president (2007-2015) Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, will serve a residential prison sentence of 6 years of imprisonment, in the department where she lives with her daughter Florence, at the request of the lawyers who defend her from the illegality and serious irregularities that are noticed in the “cause of road traffic”, related to a public work in the southern province of Santa Cruz,…
Ex-Argentine President Handed House Arrest
“An Argentine judge on Tuesday put former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner under house arrest to serve out a six-year sentence for corruption in a case that has effectively brought down the country’s most prominent politician in recent decades,” Reuters reports.
Argentina's ex-president Cristina Kirchner has to be detained for six years because of corruption. However, as a court ruled, the 72-year-old is allowed to serve the sentence at home.
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner must serve a six-year sentence for corruption. A court has now granted the former Argentinean head of state house arrest with electronic surveillance.
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Argentine ex-president Kirchner begins six-year term under house arrest
Argentina's ex-president Cristina Kirchner began serving a six-year fraud sentence under house arrest on Tuesday, after a judge granted her request to avoid prison in a case that dramatically ended her two-decade career.
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