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Adolfo Scilingo (b. 1947) is a former Argentine naval officer who is currently serving 30 years (the legally applied limit, although he was sentenced to 640 years) in a Spanish prison after being convicted on April 19, 2005 for crimes against humanity. The court found that he was on board military planes which jettisoned numerous naked, drugged political dissidents into the Atlantic Ocean during the rule of the military junta between 1976 and 1983. Scilingo had earlier attracted great notoriety for publicly confessing on Argentine television to participating in the so-called death flights, the first of a series of public confession (or expressions of pride) collectively called in Argentina the 'Scilingo effect' (Feitlowitz 1999). The Spanish case is remarkable as it is the first use of a new Spanish law whereby people can be prosecuted for crimes committed outside Spain.
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