A 38-year-old Argentinian who was taken from his mother in 1977 during the military dictatorship in the country has found her after an eight-year search, news reports say.
The man used DNA analysis to help him locate the woman, who was serving a two-year prison sentence in the northern Argentine province of Tucuman when she gave birth. The child was immediately taken from her by the military and given to foster parents.
The man began searching for his mother in 2007 with help from the human rights organisation Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, he told broadcaster Cadena 3 on Monday.
The group confirmed that he was the 119th child to have been reunited with his mother.
Human rights organisations estimate that about 500 children were stolen by the military dictatorship, which lasted from 1976 to 1983, and given to foster parents under false identities.
The man is only the second taken from a parent held in detention to have found his mother still alive.
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