US court hears apartheid appeal

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Source: al jazeera

A court in New York has retired to consider its decision over a lawsuit against several international corporations accused of aiding South Africa's apartheid-era government.

Lawyers for companies that included Daimler AG, General Motors, Ford Motor Company and IBM appeared at the hearing on Monday in a final effort to prevent the case from proceeding.

The hearing before a panel of three judges comes more than six years after South African victims' groups first began litigation against a string of car makers, computer giants and banks.

The groups accused the companies of complicity in human rights abuses and aiding the South African government in its violent repression of black people.


Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/01/201011155637902360.html

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