NewzSpain's Audiencia Nacional has granted conditional release on medical grounds to Inocente Orlando Montano Morales, a former Salvadoran colonel and former vice minister of Public Security. Montano was originally convicted in 2020 and sentenced to 133 years and three months in prison for his role in the 1989 murders of five Spanish Jesuit priests in El Salvador.
The decision to release the aging former military official stems exclusively from health and illness-related motivations assessed by the Spanish judicial authorities. The case relates to a high-profile historical atrocity that targeted the Jesuits during the Salvadoran Civil War, for which Montano had previously been extradited and prosecuted in Spain.
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