James Thessin, the chief U.S. agent to the court, admitted that Arizona authorities violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by failing to inform the LaGrands upon arrest on January 7, 1982, of their right to assistance from the German consulate.

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These included the arrest and trial of Chilean General Augusto Pinochet, the arrest of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, and the creation of a United Nations Convention against Torture.

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