Chile ex-general jailed for life

Chile's Supreme Court has confirmed the life sentence handed down to a former general for his part in the murder of 12 opponents of Augusto Pinochet.

Hugo Salas Wenzel is the first such senior military officer to receive a life term for human rights violations.

Wenzel was the head of the intelligence service, the National Information Centre, which carried out the killings.

The young rebels had taken part in the failed attempt to assassinate the ex-military leader in September 1986.