Argentine torture defendant may have been silenced
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A former coast guard officer found dead in jail days before the verdict in his trial for torture may have been killed to keep him from talking about human rights violations during Argentina's 1976-1983 dirty war, a judge's resolution said.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - An investigative judge  questioned former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet for half an  hour on Saturday to decide whether to indict him in one of  hundreds of human rights cases stemming from his 1973-1990  rule.
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A videotape showing Pentagon officials' final interrogation of al-Qaeda suspect Jose Padilla is missing, raising questions about whether federal prosecutors have lost other recordings and evidence in the case
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An Argentine former navy officer went on trial accused of genocide and serious human rights abuses under his country's dictatorship, including throwing prisoners into the ocean from helicopters.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Chile's Supreme Court on  Thursday stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity  from prosecution in a notorious human rights case, raising  hopes of victims that he may finally face trial for abuses  during his 17-year regime.
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Thousands of Argentines rallied outside the government palace on Tuesday calling for answers one year after the disappearance of a key witness in a trial of a human rights criminal from the 1976-1983 military regime.
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A Spanish court rules that a former Argentine navy officer can be tried for alleged human rights abuses.
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Argentina's Supreme Court revokes a pardon granted to a former general accused of human rights abuses.
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After years of indefinite confinement, many detainees at Guantanamo Bay say they feel they may never receive justice, according to transcripts of hearings obtained by The Associated Press. Fewer than one in five of detainees allowed a hearing last year even bothered to show up for it.
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A former Mexican president accused of genocide was unable Friday to undergo a court-mandated psychological evaluation because of his poor health, his lawyer said.
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A Spanish court hears dramatic evidence at the trial of an Argentine accused of crimes against humanity.
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Attorneys for a former detainee at a secret CIA prison said in a court filing this week that intelligence officials had falsely claimed in public statements that his interrogations were not videotaped, that all videotaped interrogations stopped in 2002 and that only a small number of CIA detainees...
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Guantanamo inmates cannot appear as witnesses at the trial of 9/11 suspect Zacarias Moussaoui.
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Although many Chileans celebrated the death of Augusto Pinochet, human rights activists lamented that he was never put on trial for his atrocities
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A hearing of a German parliamentary inquiry probing the case of a former Guantanamo inmate was canceled because Berlin refused to release key documents.Comment
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Spanish prosecutors played a tape recording Wednesday of a former Argentine naval officer describing scenes of torture during the so-called "dirty war" waged against dissidents by his country's former military ...
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The disappearance of a crucial witness in a human rights abuse trial has awakened fears of a resurgence in right-wing death squads.