Spanish police arrest Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron

MADRID - Spanish police arrested former Argentine President Isabel Peron today, wanted in her home country for a judicial investigation into dissident killings before the 1976-1983 military dictatorship, police sources said.

Peron, whose full name is Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, was arrested at her home in Villanueva de la Canada, a town in the province of Madrid, the sources said.

She was being taken by police to the High Court.

A judge wants to question Peron in a case involving the 1976 disappearance of a man who rights groups claim was last seen being taken into custody by state security agents.

- REUTERS