EFF Co-Hosts Human Rights Event at World Affairs CouncilThursday, February 5, 2004World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco"Fighting Impunity in Chile: A Bay Area Family's Legal Victory" Moderator: Elizabeth Farnsworth, Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS Zita Cabello-Barrueto, Visiting Scholar, Women's Leadership Institute, Mills College Leo Cunningham, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati Sandra Coliver, Executive Director, Center for Justice & Accountability Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Professor, UC Hastings In October 1998, Gen. Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London, the first former head of state in modern times to be arrested for human rights atrocities. The arrest led to his indictment by the Chilean courts, the prosecution and imprisonment of several military officers, and the filing of indictments against hundreds more. It also prompted Foster City resident Zita Cabello, a Chilean refugee, to track down a Pinochet-era Chilean army officer who had settled in Miami and bring him to justice for the 1973 murder of her brother. On October 15, 2003, a Florida jury found Armando Fernandez Larios liable for torture, crimes against humanity, and extra-judicial killing and awarded the Cabello family $4 million in compensatory and punitive damages. The panel will discuss the case and efforts in Chile to hold Pinochet-era criminals accountable. Co-sponsors: Human Rights Advocates, Facing History and Ourselves, the International Human Rights Law Section, San Francisco Bar AssociationRegistration: 5:30 pm Program: 6:00-7.15 pm Members: Free, Cosponsors: $7, Nonmembers: $12, Student nonmembers: $5. Please register at registration@wacsf.org or call 415.293.4600. Or register on-line at World Affairs Council . posted by Cindy 2:47 PM . . .
