(ANSA) – SANTIAGO, CHILE, 14 NOV – The Chilean Supreme Court has confirmed the conviction of a doctor from Pinochet’s secret police, the Dina, for the kidnapping and coercion of the socialist militant Luz de las Nieves Ayress Moreno, detained and subjected to brutal torture in the clandestine centers of Londres 38, Tejas Verdes and Tres Alamos, between January and November 1974. After 50 years, with a unanimous decision, the sentence of Vittorio Orvietto Tiplitzky to 10 years and one day for “qualified kidnapping” and 5 years of imprisonment for “repeated illegitimate coercion” was finally confirmed this afternoon. Also convicted were former Dina agents César Manríquez Bravo and Raúl Quintana Salazar, whose defense did not appeal. In the first instance sentence, Marianela Cifuentes Alarcón, the magistrate who deals with cases of human rights violations, had demonstrated with evidence the brutal acts of torture against Luz Ayress, even in the presence of her father and brother. In civil proceedings, the sentence condemning the Chilean state to pay compensation for moral damages to the victim of 145,000 euros (150 million Chilean pesos) was also finally confirmed. (HANDLE).
