Lawyers Contest Pinochet Ruling
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The House of Lords, Britain’s highest court, was told by lawyers for British and Spanish prosecutors that Augusto Pinochet had no right to immunity given the “savage and barbarous crimes”--including the slayings of children and torture--that Chile’s former dictator was responsible for. The lawyers were seeking to overturn a ruling that Pinochet’s Oct. 16 arrest on a Spanish warrant was illegal. The appeal may be heard through next week.
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