In 1998, Augusto Pinochet was arrested in ........... following an indictment by Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón under the universal-jurisdiction principle.

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• The Human Rights Act 1998 (also known as the Act or the HRA) came into force in the United Kingdom in October...............
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