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Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
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Augusto Pinochet
Dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte was a Chilean military officer and politician who was the dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990. From 1973 to 1981, he was the leader of the military junta, which in 1974 declared him President of the Republic and thus the dictator of Chile; in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet
Arrest of the dictator for crimes against humanity (1990s–2000s)
General Augusto Pinochet was indicted for human rights violations committed in his native Chile by Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón in 1998. He was arrested in London six days later and held under house arrest for a year and a half before being released by the British…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)