Philippe Sands

Londres 38 (eBook, ePUB)

Augusto Pinochet, the Old Nazi and the Disappeared

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The arrest of Augusto Pinochet in London in October 1998 was a landmark moment. It was the first time that a former head of state has been arrested on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity while travelling abroad. Five decades after the Nuremberg trial, the Pinochet case was the moment in which the idea of international criminal justice came alive once more.

The central narrative of Pinochet in London is that untold story - the circumstances of his arrest, for crimes committed after he came to power on 11 September 1973; the extraordinary and tumultuous legal proceedings in London, with consequences in Madrid and Santiago; and his return. Relatedly, it's a tale about legal principles invented in 1945 and first invoked in Nuremberg's Courtroom 600 - the end of immunity - and personal stories and conflicts: in Chile, Spain and Britain, a victim, a lawyer, a prosecutor, a friend, a judge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474620772
• Artikelnr.: 60030645

Autorenporträt

Philippe Sands is Professor of Public Understanding of Law at UCL, visiting professor at Harvard Law School and a practising barrister at 11 KBW. He has been involved in many significant international cases in recent years, including Pinochet, Congo, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Iraq, Guantanamo, Chagos and the Rohingya. He has served as President of English PEN and as a member of the board of the Hay Festival.

Rezensionen

An extraordinary achievement . . . I read with open mouth and thumping heart. Sands brilliantly traces the atrocious trail of blood that leads from the death camps of Nazi Germany to the torture rooms of Pinochet's Chile. 38 Londres Street takes its place as one of the most unforgettable and important records of the systematic pitiless cruelty of which tyrannies are capable STEPHEN FRY