Tag: Human Rights Court

• Friday, March 25th 2011 - 01:51 UTC

  Human Rights Court calls on Uruguay to remove ‘dirty war’ amnesty law

  

  Uruguay must remove obstacles to prosecuting human rights offences committed during its “dirty war” in the 1970s, including an amnesty that had protected military and police officers accused of killings, kidnappings or torture, the Inter-American Human Rights Court ruled.