Argentine ex-officer on hunger strike prior to trial in Spain on abuses
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An Argentine ex-officer accused of human rights abuses -- including dumping live prisoners from helicopters into the ocean -- during his country's so-called "dirty war" in the 1970s has stepped up a hunger ...
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A  rapist on hunger strike in a protest over his innocence is to be given intravenous nutrition, a judge rules.
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A Serb war crimes suspect ended his nearly monthlong hunger strike Friday after judges allowed him to conduct his own defense and granted several other demands, the U.N. Yugoslav tribunal announced.Comment
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Doctors have begun force-feeding a jailed former leader of the Basque separatist group ETA who is staging a second hunger strike to protest his imprisonment, a prison department spokesman said Wednesday.
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Eight officials, including a former army chief, are sentenced for abuses during Argentina's military dictatorship.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - An Argentine court on  Wednesday charged former President Fernando de la Rua with  misusing public funds, three years after a public outcry forced  him to leave office early.
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SANTIAGO, Chile -- In the long struggle to seek justice for victims of human rights abuses committed during 17 years of military rule in Chile, former dictator Augusto Pinochet has repeatedly escaped efforts to prosecute him and bring him to trial. With Pinochet now under house arrest, the country's Supreme Court is said to be ready to announce Monday whether the ailing ex-general will finally be brought to court.
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Argentina's ex-President Raul Alfonsin defends an amnesty for "dirty war" torturers in court.
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An Argentine ex-officer accused of human rights abuses -- including dumping live prisoners into the ocean from helicopters -- during his country's so-called "dirty war" in the 1970s, is due in the dock Friday despite going on a hunger strike.
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SANTIAGO -- Before police dragged him away to prison last month for the 1975 murder of an opposition activist, the former chief of Chile's disbanded secret police angrily called on former General Augusto Pinochet to stand up and ''answer for everything that took place in Chile."
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Serbian war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj has ended a month-long hunger strike after winning back the right to defend himself before the UN tribunal in The Hague, the court said.
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A former police investigator was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday in connection with the disappearance of six people during Argentina's so-called "Dirty War" against political dissent.
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Some of Iraq&#39;s high-profile detainees have gone on hunger strike in protest of their detention, a lawyer said Sunday. A US military official
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico  - One night in May 1994, former U.S. naval officer Saul Sanchez and his wife Abigail were getting ready for the theater in this northern Mexican city when armed men banged on their door and dragged them away. They were never seen again.
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Peru's Cabinet chief testified Friday at the trial of former President Alberto Fujimori that security forces attempted to assassinate two-time President Alan Garcia in 1992, when Fujimori was running the country and Garcia was out of office.
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Demonstations are staged across Argentina to mark a year since a key witness in a human rights trial vanished.
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Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and 11 top leaders of his regime have gone on hunger strike in their US detention centre, one of their lawyers said yesterday.