Oral Arguments in The Matter of Khulumani Versus Barclays Begins in USA
Oral arguments in the matter of Khulumani versus Barclays which is based on law principles of liability and on the Alien Tort Claims Act, which grants US courts jurisdiction over certain violations of international law, were to begin in the US, according to the announcement of Jubilee South Africa.
In the said lawsuit eighty-seven South Africans, alleged to be victims of gross human rights abuses during the apartheid era, have brought charges against 23 foreign corporations for aiding and abetting the South African regime.
Jubilee South Africa spokesman Tristen Taylor said the statute was increasingly being used to bring to justice those who committed human rights abuses. “This complaint seeks to hold those businesses that aided and abetted the apartheid regime responsible for the wrongs they made possible,” Taylor said.
Filed under Class Action, General Law
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