(29 Sep 2013) Nine former officials of the Chilean military dictatorship convicted of crimes against humanity were taken on Sunday from a luxurious jail exclusively for human rights offenders to one with less benefits on the outskirts of Santiago.
President Sebastian Pinera announced earlier this week that the Cordillera prison for officials convicted of crimes against humanity, which had a pool and tennis courts, would be closed and its inmates transferred to Punta Peuco, another, less luxurious special jail for human rights offenders.
On Saturday night, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the jail to protest the special treatment given to dictatorship-era military officials who were convicted of crimes that included tortures, disappearances and murders.
Images of Sunday night show people holding the photos of those who were killed or disappeared during the dictatorship.
Others threw rocks and eggs at the police.
The inmates being transported were accompanied by medical personnel, as some of them were suffering from health problems.
The Cordillera prison, located on an army base, offered the officers jailed for killings, torture and other abuses during General Augusto Pinochet's 1973-90 dictatorship far better conditions than Chile's normal penitentiaries.
The inmates lived in small cabins with private bathrooms, had hot showers and got lots of natural light.
Pinera said his government decided to close Cordillera taking into account equality before law as well as the security of the prison's 10 inmates.
Nine will now serve time at Punta Peuco, another special jail for human rights offenders.
On Saturday a tenth inmate, the country's former spy chief committed suicide shortly before he was to be transferred from the luxury prison.
Authorities say retired General Odladier Mena shot himself in the head on Saturday in a stairwell outside his home in Santiago.
Mena had taken advantage of prison benefits that allowed him to visit his home.
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