CJA In The News

“A federal judge in Atlanta awarded $140 million in damages Monday to four men found to have been tortured and abused by a Bosnian Serb soldier as part of an “ethnic cleansing” campaign in the early 1990s.”

In a Washington D.C. courtroom on September 10, 2001, US Magistrate Judge Alan Kay brought down a judgment for compensatory and punitive damages of more than $66 million against the defendant in the case of Jane Doe et al versus Johny Lumintang.

The Center for Justice and Accountability announced Saturday it had filed a federal lawsuit against Liu Qi, the mayor of Beijing and president of the Beijing Olympic Committee.

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.”