The Pinochet Effect
Subtitle: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: January 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780812238457
Subjects: International human rights law; Politics/International Relations; Law; Criminal liability (International law); Political Science; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Criminal Law - General; International; Law / Human Rights; Law / International; Law-Criminal Law - General; Political Science-Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Politics and government; Criminal liability (Internatio; Southern Cone of South America; Criminal jurisdiction; Human rights; Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto
First sentence: General Augusto Pinochet really wanted to travel.
Description: "The 1998 arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in London and subsequent extradition proceedings sent an electrifying wave through the international community. This legal precedent for bringing a former head of state to trial outside his home country signaled that neither the immunity of a former head of state nor legal amnesties at home could shield participants in the crimes of military governments. It also allowed victims of torture and crimes against humanity to hope that their tormentors might be brought to justice. In this meticulously researched volume, Naomi Roht-Arriaza examines the implications of the litigation against members of the Chilean and Argentine military governments and traces their effects through similar cases in Latin America and Europe."--Jacket.