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Pinochet Case

The story of how General Augusto Pinochet's visit to Britain in 1998 ended up with a challenge to international judicial tradition.

The story of how a visit to Britain by the former Chilean leader, General Augusto Pinochet, in 1998 ended up with a challenge to international judicial tradition.

(Photo: Demonstrators shout slogans and hold placards in October 1998, at the entrance to The London Clinic hospital where former dictator Augusto Pinochet was being detained.)
(Photo: SINEAD LYNCH/AFP/Getty Images)

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