Families Of Kidnapped Persian Jews Sue Khatami In US Court

PR NewsWire/Yahoo ^ | September 9, 2006 | Press Release

[ncountylee]

NEW YORK, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Jewish-Iranian families have filed suit in an American federal court against former President Mohammad Khatami over charges that he is responsible for the kidnapping and torture of their missing family members. The families, currently residing in Los Angeles and Israel, contend that Khatami instituted the policy of imprisoning their relatives without trials and refusing to provide them any information concerning their whereabouts. The Jews were arrested on different occasions during the years 1994 through 1997, as they sought to leave Iran across its border with Pakistan.

On Friday evening copies of the complaint and summons were served on Khatami at a reception in Arlington, Virginia hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Khatami has twenty days to file an answer denying the allegations or default the case.

The plaintiffs, who are not U.S. citizens, brought the suit under special laws - the Alien Torts Act and the Torture Victims Protection Act - which permit foreigners to sue their tormentors for torture and kidnapping in American courts. The lawsuit filed in the New York District Court is being represented by attorneys Robert Tolchin of New York, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of Jerusalem and Pooya Dayanim of Los Angeles. The plaintiffs are seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages against Khatami for his role in the on-going disappearance of their loved ones.

[ncountylee]

Beast of luck to the families.

[Democratshavenobrains]

Are DU and Kos calling them Bush neo-con imperialists yet?

[sionnsar]

Ahem: Beast of luck to the families.

[sionnsar]

ping!

[California Patriot]

Outstanding

[goldstategop]

Bush may shamed this country by granting Khatami a visa but these families have restored some of our honor! I wish them good luck in their suit against Iran's past Islamofascist tyrant. We all need to stand up and be counted for the principles of freedom, human dignity and conscience. They are non-negotiable.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[ncountylee]

Oops, thanks for correcting.

[sionnsar]

Bush may shamed this country by granting Khatami a visa but these families have restored some of our honor! I wish them good luck in their suit against Iran's past Islamofascist tyrant. We all need to stand up and be counted for the principles of freedom, human dignity and conscience. They are non-negotiable.

Amen!

[driftdiver]

I say forget seeking honor thru the courts. Shoot the murdering bastard as soon as he steps off the plane.

Not that I'm advocating violence. /sarc

[Leisler]

[sionnsar]

See my tagline.

[Fiddlstix]

Good! Sue the Bastard!

(Then Hang Him)

[BW2221]

Yes, and Natalee Holoway's mom sued VanderSlote. This will get about as far.

[ZULU]

Once Bush has Bush has made a critical lapse in judgment by permitting this fiend to travel here.

BOTH political parties have betrayed America - with a few outstanding exceptions - all Republican - in dealing with the beast of international Islamization.

I hope EVERY Alumnus and Alumna of that despicable college throws any future requests for funding exactly where it belongs - in the garbage.

[Jack Black]

BOTH political parties have betrayed America - with a few outstanding exceptions - all Republican - in dealing with the beast of international Islamization.

BOTH political parties have betrayed America - with a few outstanding exceptions - all Republican - in dealing with the beast of rampant immigration / invasion and the transformation it is causing.

I hope EVERY Alumnus and Alumna of that despicable college throws any future requests for funding exactly where it belongs - in the garbage. I have tossed all alumni money requests for years. I hope EVERY Alumnus and Alumna of that despicable college throws any future requests for funding exactly where it belongs - in the garbage.

[Uncle Archy]

I'm just thinkin...
They can't serve him until he sets foot in this country, right? Well, he's been served, not that he would hold any respect for our system of justice (non-sharia). I hope he gets served with earfulls of American free speech.

[dervish]

best reason I can think of for letting him in. And he was served at a reception in his honor. He was honored all right.

[george76]

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