<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/2008/10/ten-years-on-fr.html">Kate Allen: Ten years on from Pinochet's arrest, dictators are no longer safe</a>

Thursday 16 October 2008 09:55 BST
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Some dates that particularly resonate with me. Today is one. 16 October 1998 was momentous not just for us at Amnesty International but more importantly, for the people of Chile as it was then when General Augusto Pinochet was arrested in the UK on charges of crimes against humanity – the worst crimes in the world.

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