Former Pinochet aide charged over murder of political prisoners

Oct 21, 2014

A former Chilean army colonel Cristián Labbé has been arrested and charged with the murder of political prisoners held in a concentration camp in the 1970s, on Wednesday.

Labbé and 9 other military officials were charged over the death of 13 prisoners at a concentration camp in San Antonio.

Lawyer Rodrigo Lledo said "the (Interior Ministry's) human rights department asked for Cristian Labbé Galilea to be prosecuted for homicide, kidnapping, torture and unlawful association."

Labbé denies any wrong doing however.

“He never tortured or assassinated anyone," said one of his lawyers, Cristián Espejo. 

See more from the Guardian here, the BBC here and Reuters here.

 

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