Supporters of former Argentine president Cristina Kirchner gather outside her house after Supreme Court upholds guilty verdict. Argentina’s Supreme Court upheld the fraud conviction of ex-president Cristina Kirchner, for which she received a six-year prison sentence and was banned from holding public office for life. „The sentences handed down by the previous courts were based on the abundance of evidence produced,“ the Supreme Court wrote in its ruling, adding that Kirchner’s leave to further appeal her conviction „is dismissed.“ The ruling makes 72-year-old Kirchner’s conviction and sentence definitive. IMAGES