Pinochet Ruling to Be Reconsidered
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From Times Wire Reports
The House of Lords overturned its original ruling denying immunity to former Gen. Augusto Pinochet to maintain public confidence in the integrity of British justice, the judges involved said in legal papers. A new panel is scheduled Monday to consider again if the former Chilean dictator can be held in Britain pending a decision on extradition to Spain for gross human rights abuses. Pinochet, who remains under police guard in a rented mansion west of London, was arrested Oct. 16 under a Spanish warrant while recuperating from back surgery.
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