A Chilean woman wanted on kidnapping charges dating to Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship in the 1970s faces extradition from Australia after a court closed her final appeal option.
The Associated Press
Rivas has waged a three-year battle against extradition on charges that she kidnapped seven people in 1976 and 1977, including Communist Party leader Victor Diaz andRivas was an assistant to Manuel Contreras, the head of the DINA secret police during Pinochet’s dictatorship. Rivas denies ever meeting the alleged victims, who have never been found.
The attorney general must give reasonable time to consider any arguments against extradition that Rivas wants to make. Rivas’ lawyers argued she was not a DINA agent and her work was mundane. Her tasks included collecting laundry, making coffee and translating, they said.
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