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Chile Prosecutor Seeks to Investigate 14 Police Officers for Alleged Torture
of Protesters

Reuters

   SANTIAGO - A Chilean prosecutor on Wednesday said he would seek court
   approval to investigate 14 police officers for allegedly torturing
   protesters during almost three weeks of intense unrest and rioting in
   the country.

   Manual Guerra, the prosecutor for Santiago East, said the investigation
   was related to two separate cases during a nine-day state of emergency
   in the capital Santiago from Oct. 18.

   One related to the actions of 12 police officers in Nunoa, a bohemian
   suburb of Santiago, where protesters defied a curfew to conduct
   successive nights of large but mainly peaceful demonstrations in a
   central square, a spokesman for Guerra told Reuters without providing
   further details.

   The second related to two officers in the lower-middle-class area of La
   Florida who were accused of beating a young man who was handcuffed, the
   spokesman said.

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