Chile: Acquitted: Mapuche community leaders tried under Chilean anti-terror legislation
Leaders of the Mapuche indigenous community, charged with forming an illegal association focusing on land rights issues, and tried under the Chilean anti-terror legislation, have been acquitted by a local court. Human rights NGOs had repeatedly said that the application of this law to land conflicts was inappropriate and that the use of faceless witnesses in these trials did not respect fair trial principles.
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