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Today the ICJ assessed the work of the 52nd session of the United Nations Sub-Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights held from 31 July-18 August 2000 in Geneva.
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Today, the ICJ made the following statement concerning the arrest in London, and subsequent detention, of the former dictator of Chile, General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte.
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