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In damning report, Chile’s National Human Rights Institute says crackdown ‘produced most serious abuses since 1989’.

Government concessions have failed to satisfy protesters who’ve vowed to stay in the streets until their demands are met

UN investigators accuse Chile’s police of responding to recent protests ‘in a fundamentally repressive manner’.

Legislators toss out motion, saying that it did not meet the Constitutional threshold for removing a president.

Roberto Campos Weiss faces up to 10 years in jail under controversial state security law for hitting a subway turnstile.

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Some protesters, enraged over discrimination and inequality, increasingly believe in using force to compel the government and the elites, to listen.

Environmental organisations kick off 10-day alternative conference in Santiago as COP25 gets under way in Spain.

Secondary students kicked off Chile’s movement for systemic change now in its sixth week.

Self-organised groups risk injury or worse as they go to the front line of Chile’s protests to help those in need.

Human Rights Watch finds Chilean police committed ‘serious human rights violations’ during weeks-long unrest.