Chile: Probes of Pinochet-Era Crimes Face Shut Down: Ensure Mandate of Special Judges to Continue Their Investigations

Index Number: AMR 22/003/2005
Date Published: 14 April 2005
Categories: Americas, Chile

In this joint press release, an appeal in support of their Chilean counterparts, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and International Commission of Jurists ask that the Chilean Supreme Court reconsider its decision to end the mandate of the special judges investigating human rights violations committed under the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.