 The British House of Lords ruled that Pinochet had no right to immunity from prosecution as a former head of state, and could be put on trial.In Spain, the Court of Appeal of the "Audiencia Nacional" affirmed Spanish jurisdiction over Argentine and Chilean cases, declaring that domestic amnesty laws (in the case of Chile, the 1978 amnesty law passed by Pinochet's regime) could not bind the Spanish courts.Both for matters concerning the "Dirty War" in Argentina and for Chile, they characterized the crimes as genocides.