One man's law</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="One man's law"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="One,mans,law"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">03-01-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>One man's law</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_342RILHBnjWkSPaFsmpc_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Arizona, USA: The Alien Tort Statute, a 215-year-old American law allows foreigners to sue in US federal court over serious human rights violations anywhere in the world. <br>On Thursday a Chinese citizen filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in New Haven, saying the American principles of free speech should protect him against attacks in China. <br>In June 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a separate case, upheld the law but said lower courts should apply it cautiously. <br>A year ago, the international war crimes tribunal in Tanzania convicted three men for using a radio station and newspaper to incite genocide in Rwanda. The tribunal suggested that American law, which it called "the most speech protective" in the world, might have called for a different result. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0102falungong02.html" target="blank">www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0102falungong02.html</a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show