UK may add to Pinochet charges

London - Gen Augusto Pinochet was formally rearrested yesterday as lawyers for the former Chilean dictator jockey with state …

London - Gen Augusto Pinochet was formally rearrested yesterday as lawyers for the former Chilean dictator jockey with state prosecutors for the legal high ground over his threatened extradition to Spain.

Six months to the day after his arrest at a London clinic, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said it may add to the torture charges facing the general from fresh information filed by Spain.

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