FOR YOUR ACTION – CHILE

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HUMAN RIGHTS

In a surprise ruling in 2004, the Santiago Appeals Court stripped Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution as a former head of state. The Chilean Supreme Court upheld the decision in August, paving the way for his indictment. Pinochet lost his immunity to stand trial for the 1974 murder in Buenos Aires of former Chilean army commander Carlos Prats and his wife, a prototype of the kind of crime that later became typical of Operation Condor. He died in December 2006 without standing trial.

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http://hrw.org/doc/?t=americas&c=chile

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