Chilean Government to Sue for Human Rights
Violation
SANTIAGO DE CHILE - For the first time in 20
years, the Chilean government will bring 24
lawsuits for crimes against humanity, thanks
to the new faculties of the Interior
Ministry's Human Rights Program (PDHMI).
According to Human Rights investigator Jorge
Escalante, journalist of La Nacion, the
legal actions will be presented in coming
days by Deputy Interior Minister Patricio
Rosende.
The 24 lawsuits represent a hope for
relatives of political prisoners executed
during the Augusto Pinochet military regime,
and ten of them are related to victims with
no legal process so far.
This action, according to Escalante, is the
first through which this instance brings
lawsuits for that kind of crime, and for the
first time also involving victims in their
condition of executed political prisoners
and not missing. |
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