Former Chilean dictator Pinochet in hospital

General Augusto Pinochet was admitted to hospital for the second time in two weeks today, undergoing what the ex-Chilean dictator’s spokesman said was “apparently just a series of routine medical tests”.

The hospital admission comes two days before a hearing on whether to strip the 89-year-old Pinochet of the immunity he has as former president in a case involving human rights abuses during his 1973-90 dictatorship.