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...simply a technicality. The court threw out the indictment on the grounds that Judge Juan Guzman had not first interrogated Pinochet before issuing it, as required by Chilean law. The judge had argued that he'd sent Pinochet a questionnaire when the general was being held under house arrest in London, and although Pinochet hadn't answered any of the questions, he'd returned the questionnaire with the comment "I am innocent of all charges against me." Guzman had taken that to be a deposition, but many other lawyers said it didn't count, because it came at the wrong...
Chile's supreme court on Wednesday threw out an indictment and arrest order against General Augusto Pinochet. Does this end efforts in Chile to prosecute the former dictator...
...read between the lines, it's unlikely that Pinochet will ever actually face trial. The medical checks and interrogations obviously touch the once untouchable general, and the military doesn't like this. But they also know nothing is actually happening to the general. Even if he's under house arrest, it's not as if he leaves his house much anyway. But for the human rights activists, pressing these cases against Pinochet even though he'll never actually go to jail serves a purpose - it's a way of putting him and his regime on trial without actually forcing...
...Requesting the arrest is a high-stakes maneuver for Putin, in light of Gusinsky's efforts to portray the legal proceedings against him as nothing more than a political witch hunt. The spectacle of Gusinsky being sent home in handcuffs by Spanish law enforcement officers will undermine his claims to martyrdom - at least in the court of Russian public opinion. But then the converse may also be true: If Spain's courts fail to find merit in the case brought by Russia, it may actually help Gusinsky paint himself as the victim of political machinations...
...beat the rap when the extradition hearing goes before the high court in Madrid. Spain, they point out, has no extradition treaty with Russia. Then again, the fact that Gusinsky was held in a nighttime swoop on his villa rather than when he passed through immigration suggests that his arrest was not simply triggered by the presence of his name in Interpol's computers. Some political commentators in Russia have even begun speculating darkly over what political favor Madrid might receive in exchange for arresting Putin's least-loved oligarch...