Chile to compensate torture victims
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Chilean President Ricardo Lagos has proposed that more than 28,000 people tortured during military rule should receive state compensation.
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By Fiona Ortiz VILLA BAVIERA, Chile  - A religious cult of Germanimmigrants has broken decades of isolation from a world shockedby sex-abuse scandals in the group, the flight of its secretiveleader and reports it once helped Chile's military governmenttorture political prisoners.
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Chile&#39;s government said that tens of thousands of people were tortured during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and that the victims will receive reparations.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - A Chilean judge on Monday  formally charged former dictator Augusto Pinochet with homicide  and kidnapping in one of many pending cases related to human  rights abuses committed during his 17-year rule.
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Chile's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that murder and kidnapping charges against Augusto Pinochet can move forward, a decision that brings the ex-dictator one step closer to trial in a major human rights case.
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QUINTERO, Chile  - Scuba divers off Chile's  Pacific Coast found sections of railway track on the ocean  floor on Wednesday believed to have been used to sink the  bodies of people killed under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto  Pinochet moved closer to his first trial on human rights  violations on Tuesday when Chile's Supreme Court allowed murder  and kidnapping charges against him to go forward.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Chile's Supreme Court stripped  former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution  on Thursday in one 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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A prisoner doesn't have to undergo excruciating pain to be considered a victim of torture, the Justice Department now says. But it's not clear whether this revised, broader definition of torture will change the treatment of foreign detainees.
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Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, received multimillion-dollar payments from the governments of several countries, including the U.S.
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The Chilean Supreme Court has shown its commitment to truth and justice, Amnesty International said today following the decision of Chileâs highest court to confirm the lifting of Augusto Pinochetâs immunity from prosecution in relation to his
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By Fiona Ortiz SANTIAGO, Chile  - Chile's Supreme Court ruled onTuesday that murder and kidnapping charges against AugustoPinochet can move forward, a decision that brings theex-dictator one step closer to trial in a major human rightscase.
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President Ricardo Lagos on Sunday said he planned to compensate thousands of people who were imprisoned and tortured under the regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
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Spain will ask Chile to implement a distress resolution issued in 1998 by Spanish Courts on the assets of former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet and his family members, a lawyer said on Monday.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Chile's Supreme Court ruled on  Tuesday that murder and kidnapping charges against Augusto  Pinochet can move forward, a decision that brings the  ex-dictator one step closer to trial in a major human rights  case.
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The Chilean ruling on Peruâs former president, Alberto Fujimori, could set a precedent for human rights cases.
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A Chilean appeals court ruled Monday that murder charges against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in a major human rights case filed this month can move forward.