US EditionFive US Adoptees Reunite with Chilean Birth Families Decades After Forced Separations
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Five US adoptees reunite with Chilean birth families decades after forced separations
Human rights groups estimate that thousands of children were stolen from their birth parents during Pinochet's brutal dictatorship, which lasted from 1973 until 1990, and adopted to foreign families
The Santiago Court of Appeal requested the extradition of an ex-judgement to Israel and ordered pre-trial detention for five persons for the irregular adoption of two minors in the 1980s.
In Chile, a first judgement has just fallen into a huge scandal of illegal adoptions. For decades, thousands of children have been torn from their mothers to be sent abroad. Five people are now under lockdown.
The minister visiting the Santiago Court of Appeal, Alejandro Aguilar, in charge of the judicial investigation into the case of the abduction of minors and illegal adoptions in Chile concentrated between 1970 and 1990, issued the first indictment of the plot on Monday and sent to the Supreme Court a request to extradite from Israel former judge Ivonne Gutierrez, one of the defendants. Justice Aguilar has tried and ordered the pretrial detention …
For the first time, Chile's Justice prosecuted five people for illegal abduction of minors during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
A judge in Chile on Monday ordered the arrest and pretrial detention of five people, including a former judge who now lives in Israel, for whom an extradition request is pending, in a case linked to the tragedy of illegal adoptions of babies, who were sold abroad for tens of thousands of dollars from 1950 to 1990. Illegal adoptions: Aguilar requested the preventive detention of 5 people for illicit association, abduction of minors and prevarica…
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