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DNA tests for Argentine Clarin group heirs

An Argentine court has ruled that the heirs to the country's main media group must submit to DNA-testing, to see if they were born to left-wing prisoners killed by the military in the 1970s.

Judges ruled that Marcela and Felipe Noble Herrera - adopted children of the Clarin Group owner - must give direct samples such as blood or saliva.

They will be compared with samples on a genetic database linked to the missing.

The siblings object to the tests. Their mother says their adoption was legal.

Campaigners have said previous samples given by the siblings were not adequate for testing.

These include blood samples the siblings gave in 2009 at a federal agency, but not the National Bank of Genetic Data....  

Read entire article at BBC