Pinochet stripped of immunity in new cases of missing dissidents

General Augusto Pinochet was stripped of his legal immunity by an appeals court today, allowing his trial in the disappearance of 29 additional dissidents during his 1973-90 dictatorship.

The 16-6 vote by the Santiago Court of Appeals allows the judge handling the case, Victor Montiglio, to add the 29 new cases to nine for which the 90-year-old former ruler had been indicted and put under house arrest two weeks earlier.