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In Fact..

This section presents news briefs. More than thirty years after the military putsch in Chile, there has finally been an arrest for one of the Pinochet regime's most infamous crimes: the murder of North American journalist Charles Horman. On December 10 Chilean judge Jorge Zepeda Arancibia indicted and detained former intelligence agent Rafael Gonzalez as an "accomplice to the crime of homicide." On January 4 an Israeli military court sentenced five refuseniks, Noam Bahat, Haggai Matar, Adam Maor, Shimri Zameret and Matan Kaminer, to one year in jail for refusing to serve in the military. The judges declared that the five conscientious objectors deserved to be harshly punished, since they questioned the morality of the military's actions and challenged the legitimacy of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The refuseniks admitted that this was their intention, adding that they will continue, to challenge the occupation.