Chile's Congress Set To Indict Judges For Releasing Torturers

Published 19 August 2018

Chile's lower house is looking to indite three judges who ruled to released five men convicted of tortures and homicides during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.

Members of Chile’s congress are formally inditing three Supreme Court judges for abandoning their “constitutional obligations” based on their ruling to release several members of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship imprisoned for crimes against humanity.

Lower house elected officials from the New Majority, Wide Front coalition and the Party For Democracy (PPD) parties will present their constitutional indictment against three ministers of the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

The indictment accuses three judges from the Second Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court - President Hugo Dolmestch, Carlos Kümsemüller, and Manuel Valderrama - for "evident abandonment of constitutional obligations." The three magistrates voted to conditionally release five former members of the Augusto Pinochet military dictatorship (1973-1990) from prison in late July based on good behavior.

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