Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 121 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5090-6168-4
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! General Augusto Pinochet was indicted for human rights violations committed in his native Chile by Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzon on 10 October 1998. He was arrested in London six days later and finally released by the British government in March 2000. Authorized to freely return to Chile, Pinochet was there first indicted by judge Juan Guzman Tapia, and charged with a number of crimes, before dying on 10 December 2006, without having been convicted in any case. His arrest in London made the front-page of newspapers worldwide as not only did it involve the head of the military dictatorship that ruled Chile between 1973 and 1990, but it was the first time that several European judges applied the principle of universal jurisdiction, declaring themselves competent to judge crimes committed by former heads of state, despite local amnesty laws. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде...