Pinochet hospitalized with pneumonia

publiziert: Sonntag, 29. Okt 2000 / 08:48 Uhr

Santiago - Former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was hospitalized on Saturday night suffering from pneumonia, the Santiago Military Hospital reported.

The hospital said in a brief statement that the 84-year-old former military ruler had pneumonia in his left lung "and will remain at the hospital for the necessary treatment." Retired Gen. Guillermo Garin, a close associate to Pinochet who accompanied him to the hospital, added: "As you know, my general suffers from diabetes and that complicates the situation." Security was tight around the hospital at Santiago's fashionable Providencia district. About two hours after Pinochet was admitted, his wife, Lucia Hiriart, was seen leaving the hospital. Pinochet has been reported in poor health in recent months. He suffers from diabetes, uses a pacemaker and suffered three mild strokes while under house arrest in London from October 1998 to March of this year. He had been detained on a warrant by a Spanish judge seeking to try him for human rights violations during his 1973-90 dictatorship. He was released in March after British doctors said he was physically and mentally unfit to stand trial.

But back home, where he faces 177 criminal complaints stemming from human rights violations, a court stripped Pinochet of congressional immunity, paving the way to put him on trial. The Santiago Court of Appeals is to hear a request Monday by Pinochet's defense lawyers that he be allowed to undergo medical tests. Also this week, an Argentine judge filed a request for Pinochet's extradition in connection with the 1974 assassination in Argentina of a retired Chilean general who opposed to the Pinochet regime.

(AP)

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