CJA In The News

A lawsuit filed in the United States against visiting Beijing mayor Liu Qi is a sign to Falungong practitioners in China that the world has not forgotten their plight, a lawyer involved in the case said.

Liu Qi, Mayor of Beijing and President of the Beijing Olympic Committee, was served with a law suit filed in U.S. District Court for his responsibility in overseeing severe human rights abuses against Chinese and international Falun Gong practitioners.

In a strong statement on the seriousness of crimes committed against ordinary East Timorese, Judge Alan Kay ruled in early September to hold Indonesian General Johny Lumintang accountable for $66 million in damages for his role in systematic human rights violations following East Timor’s vote for independence in 1999.

“Kemal Mehinovic, a Bosnian refugee now living in Salt Lake City, concluded his testimony in Atlanta this week in a two-day trial against another refugee accused of committing atrocities during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.”

An Indonesian general has been found guilty in an American court. Is there any resounding impact?

In a case brought by a local legal nonprofit, a U.S. district judge has ordered a high-ranking Indonesian general to pay $66 million in compensatory and punitive damages for massive human rights violations committed in East Timor.

“Muslim victims of Serb paramilitary sue him for millions of dollars in U.S. court.”