Government fast-tracks social outbreak amnesty bill
SANTIAGO – The government assigned urgency to a bill granting amnesty to those apprehended during the social outbreak of 2019/2020. An official said the step...
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Will Those Detained During the Chile Protests Get Amnesty?
Congress will discuss a bill to release prisoners linked to the social outbreak that started in 2019. Proponents claim these are political prisoners, but the...
Mario Rozas, the Chief of Carabineros, Needs to Go
After the dictatorship, and although Carabineros de Chile’s Director General was part of the junta, the police force could position itself as the most respected...
“The Worst Human Rights Crisis Since the Dictatorship”
SANTIAGO – Amnesty International published a report this week entitled “Human Rights in the Americas: 2019” which condemned the recent violence in Chile. The organization...
’15-year-old who accompanied Catrillanca was tortured after his arrest’
SANTIAGO – The director of the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH) in Chile has said that the 15-year-old boy that accompanied Camilo Catrillanca, who...