Chile’s government must pay a Chilean exile $32,000 in compensation for nearly two years of arrest and torture during the military dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled.

The ruling by the Costa-Rica based court came in the case of Leopoldo Garcia Lucero, who has lived in Britain since 1975. It is the first ruling from the court in favor of a survivor of the 1973-90 Pinochet dictatorship.