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Six years since Jack Straw released Pinochet

nona | 02.03.2006 00:07


It is exactly six years since Jack Straw released brutal Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.



Exactly six years ago, on 2 March 2000, Jack Straw freed brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet to fly back to Chile, allegedly because of his ill health, instead of extraditing him to Spain to face trial.

Six years later the bastard is alive and well and has still not been tried for the crimes he committed against the Chilean people.

Others who protected him include Lord Chief Justice, Lord Bingham, who ruled that he was "entitled to immunity as a former sovereign from the criminal and civil process of the English courts''. Chief Medical Officer Professor Liam Donaldson said he found the medical experts' assessment "extremely thorough". This assessment sought to excuse Pinochet from trial on the grounds of his ill health.

Straw, who was Home Secretary at the time, then went on to become Foreign Secretary at the time when Britiain and the USA illegally invaded Iraq.

It seems that justice of any sort is an alien concept to the man of straw...


News reports from the time:

Pinochet set free
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_663000/663170.stm

"Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet will not be extradited on torture charges and is free to leave the UK, Home Secretary Jack Straw has decided.

Mr Straw believes the general is medically unfit to stand trial in England."

Anger at unjust Pinochet ruling
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_663000/663384.stm

More reports:
 http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?go.x=&scope=newsukfs&go=go&start=5&go.y=&tab=news&q=pinochet+straw

nona