Ex-Argentine president released after being arrested in Spain
Spain's National Police on Friday released the former Argentine president, 75-year-old Maria Estela Martinez also known as Isabel Peron, on bail, shortly after being arrested.

The arrest came after an Argentine judge issued an international arrest warrant against her in a case involving the disappearance of a young man in 1976, who rights groups say, was last seen being taken into custody by security officials.

Martinez is wanted for signing three 1975 decrees, which enabled the armed forces to go on a campaign of "annihilation of subversive elements," opening the door to death squads, and what the current Argentine government has termed as "state terror."

Spain's top criminal court ordered the 75-year-old former leader to be provisionally released after Isabel gave a half-hour statement.

Judge Juan del Olmo said that there was little risk that the old lady would flee the country, but ordered her to come back to court within 15 days or face house arrest.

Peron, the widow of Argentina's former President Juan Domingo Peron, has been living in Spain since 1981. She became president in 1974 after the death of her husband, and was ousted in 1976 in a military coup.