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Former Chile police officers convicted 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 convicted 24 former Chilean police officers of human rights violations on Wednesday for their role in the 1973 murders of 30 leftist prisoners. A woman who survived the incident, which took place during the regime of former dictator Augusto Pinochet [JURIST news archive], testified that the officers tortured and shot some 30 inmates, and then dumped their bodies into a

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