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About Héctor Febres
- Héctor Febres (died 10 December 2007) was an Argentine coastguard officer who died while awaiting sentencing after being tried for torture.
- Febres was accused of having tortured dissidents during Argentina's Dirty War period.
- Thousands of dissidents were tortured at the Navy School of Mechanics, known as ESMA, for seven years beginning in 1976.
- Febrés was accused of torturing prisoners at the ESMA, and the prosecution had asked for life imprisonment.
- Febres was found dead in his cell from apparent cyanide poisoning days before he was to be sentenced.
- His wife and adult children, and two guards, were arrested in connection with his death; they had dined with him the previous evening.
- It was reported that "Febres had stories to tell and many suspected he might talk", and police were investigating whether he was murdered or killed himself; prosecution lawyers were convinced he was silenced by people linked to the military.
- Febres would have been the first person from the ESMA to be sentenced.
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