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USA: Former Somali Chief of Security Files Reply to the Torture Lawsuit

By Editor | Published: June 14, 2010

2010-06-11, Columbus, Ohio, United States. Abdi Aden Magan, former Chief of the Somali Security Service filed a response to the complaint that alleged that he is responsible for torture. According to the news reports, it appears that the defendant pleaded the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act on the basis that he acted in official capacity, limitations [...]

Posted in Domestic Courts | Also tagged Abdi Aden Magan, Abukar Hassan Ahmed, Alien Tort Statute, arbitrary detention, ATS, Center for Justice and Accountability, Chief, CJA, Columbus, command responsibility, complaint, cruel inhuman and degrading treatment, Department of Investigations, Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Kenya, Kristine L. Sendek-Smith, limitations act, Mark J. MacDougall, NSS, official capacity, Ohio, personal responsibility, preferred jurisdiction, Somali National Security Service, Somali National University, Somaliland, Tiffany Smithm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, torture, Torture Victim Protection Act, TVPA, U.S. District Court for the Southern District Court of Ohio, United States | Comments closed

USA: Ahmed: Former Somali Security Chief Sued in Ohio for Torture Committed in 1988

By Editor | Published: April 28, 2010

2010-04-21, Columbus, Ohio, United States. Abukar Hassan Ahmed filed a complaint against Colonel Abdi Aden Magan, former Chief of the Somali National Security Service Department of Investigations during Siad Barre regime. The Complaint alleges that the plaintiff was tortured on the orders and with participation of the defendant. The plaintiff was a professor of constitutional and [...]

Posted in Domestic Courts | Also tagged Abdi Aden Magan, Abukar Hassan Ahmed, Alien Tort Statute, arbitrary detention, ATS, Center for Justice and Accountability, Chief, CJA, Columbus, command responsibility, complaint, cruel inhuman and degrading treatment, Department of Investigations, Kristine L. Sendek-Smith, Mark J. MacDougall, NSS, Ohio, personal responsibility, Somali National Security Service, Somali National University, Tiffany Smithm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, torture, Torture Victim Protection Act, TVPA, U.S. District Court for the Southern District Court of Ohio, United States | Comments closed

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