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""
Trial of Fifty e de Defesa do Estado), which was to prevent news of the jailings from coming to international attention and prevent drawing attention to the misdeeds of the Salazar regime. The news of the jailing of these 50 nationalists also alerted other members of the independence movement to their dangerous situation, leading them to evade capture and setting the scene for the eventual Angolan War of Independence which began 4 February 1961, when Angolan nationalists launched attacks against jails holding political prisoners. Trial of Fifty The Trial of Fifty (, or Case of Fifty) was a series of three political trials,