Noriega starts new 20-year jail term
- 12 years ago
This is the Panamanian jail where the country's former dictator will spend the next 20 years.
But there was some confusion whether it was really Manual Noriega who arrived with this convoy at La Renacer prison.
The interior minister said later a decoy was used during the operation.
Noriega's beginning a sentence in his home country for the murders of opponents during his dictatorship in the eighties.
His anticipated arrival drew a gathering of protesters including some whose relatives perished under his rule.
SOUNDBITE: Susana Ortega, daughter of a man killed during Noriega's dictatorship, saying (Spanish):
"First of all I want to make sure that that man will get what he got in the United States and in France - prison for 15 or 20 years, whatever is left of his life - that he dies behind bars and not in luxury."
Noriega, who's spent the last two decades in jails in the United States and France, will be held in this specially-prepared unit.
He was convicted in his absence of three murders and faces charges over another.
Paul Chapman, Reuters
But there was some confusion whether it was really Manual Noriega who arrived with this convoy at La Renacer prison.
The interior minister said later a decoy was used during the operation.
Noriega's beginning a sentence in his home country for the murders of opponents during his dictatorship in the eighties.
His anticipated arrival drew a gathering of protesters including some whose relatives perished under his rule.
SOUNDBITE: Susana Ortega, daughter of a man killed during Noriega's dictatorship, saying (Spanish):
"First of all I want to make sure that that man will get what he got in the United States and in France - prison for 15 or 20 years, whatever is left of his life - that he dies behind bars and not in luxury."
Noriega, who's spent the last two decades in jails in the United States and France, will be held in this specially-prepared unit.
He was convicted in his absence of three murders and faces charges over another.
Paul Chapman, Reuters