Jorge Eduardo Acosta cases against him were re-opened. In August 2006, the Argentine justice decided to take the ESMA case, in which Jorge Eduardo Acosta is to be judged along with Alfredo Astiz and Adolfo Miguel Donda. He is also accused in Italy for crimes committed during the dictatorship against Italian citizens. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Argentinian court on October 26, 2011. He was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment by an Argentinian court on July 5, 2012 for the systematic theft of babies from political prisoners. Jorge Eduardo Acosta Jorge Eduardo Acosta (born 27 May 1941), alias ""el Tigre""
National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners more equitable course of action'." The organization was influential in defending civil liberties, such as the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama, where nine African American teenagers were wrongly accused of raping a white woman, even in the face of medical evidence to the contrary. "A Statement of the Purposes of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners" stated that: The National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners has been formed to aid workers to organize and to defend themselves against terror and suppression [...] The National Committee recognizes the right of workers to organize, strike and picket, their