Right to freedom from Torture: Critically analyse whether international human rights machinery provides effective and efficient protection for this right and Pinochet Case



Right to freedom from Torture: Critically analyse whether international human rights machinery provides effective and efficient protection for this right and Pinochet Case

Introduction

The aim of this paper is to discuss the right of freedom from torture holistically. Torture is the imposition of voluntary abuse physical or psychological aims to suffer an individual. When torture accompanies the execution of a death sentence is more a question of execution, which makes death a long and painful form of punishment. The second part of the paper discusses the international human rights machinery provides effective and efficient protection for this right. The report also focuses on the case analysis of “Pinochet Case”. The arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998 for violating human rights opened unprecedented opportunities to justice, to the pronunciation of the dismissal, after a legal saga that lasted nearly four years. Through judicial review of an event without precedent, the authors sought to clarify the ambiguity of the links between the judiciary to political power. For the Pinochet case is indicative of both the rocks on which abuts justice and the fight to make independent and internationally.

Pinochet case and its immunity

On Monday, Augusto Pinochet, former dictator of Chile, was arrested and indicted for the killings and disappearances of political opponents that occurred during his administration. The action against the old dictator has not caused any comment from the government of the United States, and the United States paid little attention to the case. The trail of evidence against the retired general, whose government for 17 years was guilty of murder, torture and jailing tens of thousands of Chileans, leads directly to the halls of Washington. Return on a bloody dictatorship, supported by the United States, look at a battered Chilean society, and history of a struggle, the victims, families of missing persons, that of Judge Juan Guzman. A valuable reminder of the facts, without pretending to be an exhaustive analysis, and an expression of solidarity to the families persecuted entries in the lives of authors in 1973. A little work to understand, therefore, clear and concise, but also a personal book, against "forgetting and thus the return of this cruelty" against the final disappearance of the victims of the Chilean.

Last week he received information that a Chilean judge, following this track, had managed to secure documentary evidence introduced in the U.S. capital with which two participants of the infamous program "Operation Condor" which testifies. Both have lived for decades in the United States under federal protection.

These murderers are not just the ones who involved in the scandal. U.S. senior officials in his capacity as current or former government officials are as guilty as Pinochet of mass murders, in Chile and elsewhere during the period of Operation Condor.

Pinochet charged kidnapping of nine individuals and the murder of one of them. The victims detained by Chilean exiles security ...