A judge has sentenced a general in the Mexican army to 52½ years in prison for ordering the torture of a suspect, then having his body burned.
The sentence was among the longest ever against a senior officer in the Mexican army.
The federal judiciary council said Thursday the conviction came in a 2008 case in the northern state of Chihuahua. It did not name the general, but the case number on the docket was the same as one linked in local media reports to Gen. Manuel Moreno Avina. He formerly commanded an army unit across the border from Presidio, Texas.
Troops under the general's command detained a suspect in a soldier's death and tortured him for hours with electric shocks until he died. They then took the man's body to a ranch and burned it.
Mexican generals have been sentenced before for corruption or aiding drug traffickers.
The army has been stung in recent years by allegations of torture, abuse and executions.
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