José Zalaquett

José "Pepe" Zalaquett Daher (10 March 1942 – 15 February 2020[1]) was a Chilean lawyer, renowned for his work in the defence of human rights during the de facto regime that governed Chile under General Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990.

Serving as the director of its legal department from late 1973 until the committee was wound up in December 1975, his job was to direct and coordinate the efforts of internal and external lawyers in defending human rights.

This entailed work in three broad areas: On 15 November 1975, agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) arrested Zalaquett and took him to the Tres Álamos detention centre.

In 2003 he was awarded Chile's National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences for his "contribution to the protection of the rights of individuals and of ethics in politics".

[5] From 2014, he conducted free online courses on Human Rights at the MOOC Chile project,[6] from the Ford Foundation and the Universidad Diego Portales.