Bringing justice to torture enablers

When, after his 16-month arrest, General Augusto Pinochet was sent back from London to his native Chile, Geoffrey Robertson, a constitutional lawyer, was asked whether it was likely that the general would spend any time behind bars. “No … but a fate worse than prison awaits him. He will spend the rest of his days surrounded by lawyers” – which is exactly what happened.

Related Subject(s): Human Rights and Refugees