Kidnap suspect loses three-year war against extradition to Chile

Members of the Chilean Australian community from the National Campaign for Truth and Justice in Chile are seen outside the Central Local Court in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday April 2 2019 (Dean Lewins/AP)

A 69-year-old Chilean woman wanted on kidnapping charges dating to Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship in the 1970s faces extradition from Australia after a court closed her final appeal option.

Adriana Rivas had appealed to Australia’s highest court after three Federal Court judges in November unanimously rejected her appeal against extradition to her homeland.