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Denuncia de la Asociación Progresista de Fiscales de España con la que se inicia el juicio por los desaparecidos españoles en Argentina, de fecha 28 marzo de 1996, (complaint), found at http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/arg/espana/inicial.html. A detailed discussion of the Spanish cases can be found at R. J. Wilson, Human Rights Quarterly 1999, p. 927.
Regina v. Bartle and the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis and Others ex parte Pinochet, November 25, 1998, 3 WLR 1456 (Pinochet I); Regina v. Bartle and the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis and Others ex parte Pinochet, March 24, 1999, 2 WLR 827 (Pinochet III). The decisions and other documents relating to the UK and Spanish cases are collected in R. Brody and M. Ratner (eds.), The Pinochet Papers: The Case of Augusto Pinochet in Spain and Britain (2000).
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See N. Roht-Arriaza, The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights (2005).
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Roht-Arriaza, N. (2007). The Pinochet Effect and the Spanish Contribution to Universal Jurisdiction. In: Kaleck, W., Ratner, M., Singelnstein, T., Weiss, P. (eds) International Prosecution of Human Rights Crimes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46278-1_9
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