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Chile ordered to pay £20,000 to compensate Pinochet torture victim [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Chile ordered to pay £20,000 to compensate Pinochet torture victim
Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent
theguardian.com, Monday 4 November 2013 03.56 GMT
An 80-year-old Chilean torture survivor, who was forced into exile by General Augusto Pinochet’s regime, has been awarded £20,000 in compensation by the highest court in the Americas.
The landmark judgment sets a precedent for victims of the military dictatorship still living abroad and requires Chile to complete a criminal investigation into what happened to Leopoldo García Lucero in the basement of a Santiago police station 40 years ago.
The decision by the Inter-American court of human rights, the continent’s equivalent of the European court of human rights in Strasbourg, marks the end of an 11-year-long legal quest for justice. It is the first ruling by the court involving a Chilean torture survivor.
García Lucero, who now lives in London with his family, was a member of the Socialist party and worked at Santiago’s racecourse, near the presidential palace. He was close to Salvador Allende, the president who was removed in the 1973 military coup.
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Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent
theguardian.com, Monday 4 November 2013 03.56 GMT
An 80-year-old Chilean torture survivor, who was forced into exile by General Augusto Pinochet’s regime, has been awarded £20,000 in compensation by the highest court in the Americas.
The landmark judgment sets a precedent for victims of the military dictatorship still living abroad and requires Chile to complete a criminal investigation into what happened to Leopoldo García Lucero in the basement of a Santiago police station 40 years ago.
The decision by the Inter-American court of human rights, the continent’s equivalent of the European court of human rights in Strasbourg, marks the end of an 11-year-long legal quest for justice. It is the first ruling by the court involving a Chilean torture survivor.
García Lucero, who now lives in London with his family, was a member of the Socialist party and worked at Santiago’s racecourse, near the presidential palace. He was close to Salvador Allende, the president who was removed in the 1973 military coup.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/chile-ordered-compensation-pinochet-torture-victim
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