Fresh bid to put Pinochet on trial

A Chilean court has agreed to hear a new request to strip former dictator General Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution and allow him to stand trial for human rights abuses during his regime.

But it remains unlikely that the 88-year-old Pinochet would ever be tried because the Supreme Court, the nation’s highest judicial authority, has repeatedly ruled that he is mentally and physically unfit to stand trial.