Torture victims slam Chile payout
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Groups representing torture victims of Chile's former military government reject a proposed compensation deal.
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By Fiona Ortiz SANTIAGO, Chile  - Murder charges against formerChilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in a major human rights casecan move forward, an appeals court said in an unprecedentedruling on Monday.
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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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A group of Sudanese released from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay demanded cash payouts and an apology from the United States on Saturday, for mental and physical torture suffered during years spent in jail there.
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Human rights groups have condemned the amputation punishments and the 23 disclosed executions this year.
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Demonstrators protest against the upcoming visit to Chile by US President George Bush in front of the central courts building where a coalition of leftist groups sued Bush and other US government officials for the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
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Â· Children among captives forced to work for no payÂ· Local officials accused of colluding with traffickers
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Chile's military for the first time accepts responsibility for human rights abuses under Gen Pinochet's rule.
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The President of Chile has announced his government will pay compensation to 28,000 victims who suffered torture during General Augusto Pinochetâs dictatorship from 1973 to 1990.
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Prosecutors, lawmakers and rights activists criticized Venezuela's judicial system for the acquittal of a man who had been accused of torturing and repeatedly raping a woman.
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Six GuantÃ¡namo detainees accused of murder and war crimes could face death penalty if convicted
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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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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Hecklers angry at the government shouted over the sound of choirs at the tense funeral on Tuesday of Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator whose repressive rule from 1973 to 1990 made him infamous around the world for human rights abuses.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Chileans are turning more and  more against ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, making courts more  likely to put the ailing retired general on trial for human  rights abuses during his 1973-1990 regime, political scientists  said.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu lashed out Monday against a Guatemalan high court decision not to arrest or extradite former military officers accused of genocide, torture and terrorism committed at the height of Guatemala's civil war.
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SANTIAGO -- Chilean President Ricardo Lagos yesterday announced compensation for thousands of victims of illegal imprisonment and torture during the dictatorship of Gen.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Thousands of Chileans, some praying and many in tears, filed past the coffin of Augusto Pinochet on Monday as his family criticized the government for denying the former dictator a state funeral.