PROSECUTOR Manual Guerra said on Wednesday he was seeking court approval to investigate 14 police officers for the alleged torture of protesters during almost three weeks of anti-government demonstrations in Chile.
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 last month.
One relates to the actions of 12 police officers in Nunoa, a suburb of the capital, where protesters defied a curfew over several nights to conduct large but mostly peaceful demonstrations in a central square, a spokesman for Mr Guerra said.
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