Last week, a Chilean judge indicted the country's former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, for the bloodshed early in his regime, but lawyers are fighting to keep him from ever standing trial.

A Chilean judge on Friday ordered former dictator Augusto Pinochet to stand trial on charges of kidnapping connected to the crimes of a roving military death squad months after the general's 1973 ...

[JURIST] Chile's Supreme Court [official website, in Spanish] Wednesday sentenced five former Chilean military officers for their role in the killing of five leftist political opponents as part of the ...

Ten days after a Chilean judge ordered the arrest of Augusto Pinochet in connection with death squad murders carried out in the aftermath of the CIA-backed military coup 27 years ago, an appeals ...

SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 29 -- -- A Chilean magistrate reinstated the indictment and house arrest of Gen. Augusto Pinochet today on charges stemming from the killing of 57 political prisoners and the ...

The Chilean Supreme Court excused General Augusto Pinochet from legal proceedings in a decision on July 1, which effectively means that the ageing former dictator will not face trial for any of ...

S A N T I A G O, Chile, July 9 -- Chile's Augusto Pinochet — the archetypal Cold War military dictator — was declared mentally unfit today to stand trial for deathsquad killings shortly after ...

He dissolved the National Congress, imposed censorship, outlawed Marxist parties, purged universities and abolished trades unions. Hundreds of suspected political opponents were herded into the ...

*In August 2000, Chile's Supreme Court stripped Pinochetof immunity he enjoyed as senator for life and ordered him tostand trial on charges stemming from the "caravan of death"execution of ...