| For Immediate Release Oct 4, 2001 |
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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. | |