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 is the author of Lawless World, Torture Team, East West Street (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction) and Sunday Times bestsellers The Ratline and The Last Colony. He has served as President of English PEN and is a member of the board of the Hay Festival.

Rezensionen

A true masterpiece. Utterly compelling, a staggering piece of research and beautifully written HENRY MARSH