Tuesday, November 10, 1998; 7:46 a.m. EST

PARIS (AP) -- A daughter of Cuban leader Fidel Castro has welcomed the arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and said it could lead to her father being tried for human rights abuses.

``I'm very aware there have been thousands of victims at the hands of my father,'' Alina Fernandez Revuelta was quoted as saying in an interview published today by the daily Le Parisien. ``The Pinochet affair is going to create a legal precedent for all dictators, including those who are still in power, like Fidel Castro.''

She said that ``justice will be done'' if Castro is ever tried. Cuban exiles, encouraged by the Pinochet case, have filed suit in Spain accusing Castro of genocide, terrorism and torture.

Fernandez Revuelta, now 42, fled Cuba in 1993 with a wig and a phony Spanish passport. At the time, she called her father a torturer, drug smuggler and terrorist.

One of eight children the Cuban leader is known to have fathered, the former fashion model has since lived in the United States and Spain.

British police arrested Pinochet on Oct. 16 in a London hospital at the request of a Spanish magistrate seeking to extradite the former Chilean leader for trial.

England's High Court ruled that he had diplomatic immunity as a former foreign head of state. An appeal is under way in Britain's highest court, the House of Lords.