Argentinian activist who spent 50 years looking for ‘disappeared’ son dies

Outpouring of public grief for Lidia Taty' Almeida, leader of group of mothers that has marched every week since 1977

The human rights activist Lidia Taty" Almeida - who spent more than half a century searching for her son after he was forcibly disappeared by Argentina's military junta - has died aged 95, prompting a public outpouring of grief.

Almeida, 95, was the president of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, made up of women who have marched around the square outside Argentina's presidential palace every Thursday since 1977, demanding the return of children who were disappeared during the country's 1976-1983 dictatorship.

Almeida's son Alejandro was kidnapped by anti-communist paramilitaries in June 1975, nine months before the coup in which a military junta seized power. His disappearance prompted Almeida to embark on her five-decade search for the truth about his fate.