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| Oct 4, 2001 | Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 |
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FIDEL CASTRO CHARGED WITH CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY BELGIAN LAW INVOKED TO INDICT CUBAN LEADER LARRY KLAYMAN TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE AT JUDICIAL WATCH ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT 2001 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Date: Saturday, October 6, 2001 Time: 11:20 a.m. Place: Hotel Inter-Continental, Miami, Florida 100 Chopin Plaza Miami, FL 33131 Speaker: Larry Klayman, Chmn. & General Counsel, Judicial Watch (Miami, Florida) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, filed a writ Thursday in Brussels, Belgium on behalf of all victims of Fidel Castro’s regime. The legal campaign to bring Cuban president Fidel Castro to court to face charges of crimes against humanity was initiated in Brussels by Jose Basulto, sole survivor of a humanitarian rescue mission attacked by Cuban Air Force jets in 1996. Other victims of Castro’s regime have joined Mr. Basulto’s initiative and pressed charges against the Cuban leader. If found guilty under Belgian law, the Cuban leader faces a sentence of between 20 and 30 years’ imprisonment. The law, which has been used recently to bring charges against former Chilean president Pinochet, and others alleging crimes against humanity, was established in 1999. By creating such a law, Belgium paved the way in bringing perpetrators of widespread and systematic violations of human rights to face trial in Belgium, regardless of where these crimes were allegedly committed. |
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