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Chile court sentences former general for Pinochet-era rights abuses

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] A Chilean court Thursday sentenced a retired general to 15 years in prison for his role in the 1974 disappearance of a political dissident. General Manuel Contreras [TrialWatch profile], the secret police chief under former dictator Augusto Pinochet [JURIST news archive], is already serving a cumulative prison sentence of 57 years for several other convictions. AP has more. In January,

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