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Bericht

11 Feb 2015

Autor:
FIDH (France)

The Amesys Case

[In 2011] FIDH and…LDH…filed a complaint alleging the complicity of…Amesys and its executive managers in acts of torture for having…executed a[n]…agreement for the provision of surveillance technology to the Libyan regime in 2007. FIDH…lodged the complaint…on the basis of the principle of extraterritorial jurisdiction…[In 2012 t]he [State] Prosecutor officially asked that the [criminal] case be closed…[but] the Criminal Investigations Tribunal…denied the Prosecutor’s request…confirming the opening of an investigation…In…2013, FIDH and the LDH introduced five Libyan victims as civil parties in the…proceedings…All of the victims had been…tortured during the uprising …having been identified through…electronic communications…In June and July 2013, with support from FIDH, five victims testif[ied] before the investigating judge…Should this case meet with success, it will be an unprecedented step towards greater awareness for companies of the criminal liability linked to complicity in international crimes and it will…contribute to better…regulation of this technology sold to oppressive governments….