(30 Aug 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Santiago, Chile - 29 August 2023
1. Son and brother of deceased Héctor Mario Silva Iriarte, Mario Silva Álvarez and Jaime Silva Iriarte, receiving posthumous law degree on his behalf
2. Jaime Silva handing diploma to relatives
3. Family embrace
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Patricia Silva, daughter of Héctor Mario Silva Iriarte:
"To us it's very strong, the State has denied justice for over fifty years while we searched for reconciliation. We became old, our sons became old."
5. Various of relatives of Hector Mario Silva Iriarte, with diploma
6. Picture of Hector Mario Silva Hiriarte hanging over Patricia's chest
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Patricia Silva, daughter of Hector Mario Silva Iriarte:
“It’s too late, today we do not have justice because we don’t have the bodies of the disappeared. There is no absolute truth because they are still chained to not saying where are they. Even if we are lawfully ruled, today we are still victims of the dictatorship."
8. Relatives with diplomas shouting inside Supreme Court UPSOUND (Spanish): “Companions of detained disappeared… present, now and always.”
9. Relative shouting UPSOUND (Spanish): "Justice, truth, no to impunity. The blood of the dead cannot be negotiated.”
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Cordero Vega, Justice Secretary:
"As the president of the (Supreme) Court said, it's a way to repair and recognize the victims of forced disappearance and political killing, which are bound to the law. It exalts the Court and also an act of consideration to the victims.”
11. Relatives posing for picture
12. Relatives leaving with diploma Supreme Court
STORYLINE:
The Chilean Supreme Court on Tuesday awarded posthumous law degrees to eight victims of enforced disappearances by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

Relatives of the disappeared received the diplomas two weeks before the 50th anniversary of the coup, as part of the reparations to the victims.

The president of the Supreme Court, Juan Eduardo Fuentes, specified that the titles were awarded to those who completed all the studies but couldn't take the oath of the profession.

"To us it's very strong, the State has denied justice for over fifty years while we searched for reconciliation. We became old, our sons became old," said Patricia Silva, daughter of Mario Silva Iriarte, one of the disappeared detainees who was awarded a law degree during the ceremony.

José Tohá González, former Minister of Defense and Interior of ousted President Salvador Allende, also received the posthumous degree.

Tohá, who is the father of the current Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá, was arrested and taken to a prison camp, before being transferred to the military hospital, where he died in March 1974.

AP Video shot by Mauricio Cuevas

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