Patent Lawyer Petitions Human Rights Commission for Investigation of Anti-Semitic Attacks in Venezuela
Marcia Coyle
Marcia Coyle
A patent lawyer and a patent boutique are the nonobvious choices for legal representation before an international human rights body. But from the perspectives of rabbis from New York and Washington, Steven Lieberman and Washington's Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck were the obvious choices to turn an international spotlight on alleged violent religious discrimination by Venezuela President Hugo Chavez. Lieberman, a member, and Matthew Stephens, an associate at Rothwell Figg, filed a petition on April 23 with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, citing an "immediate need" for an investigation into the role of the Chavez government in instigating and condoning attacks on the Jewish community in Venezuela. In re Request for a General Hearing into Government Instigated Anti-Semitism in Venezuela. The commission was created in 1959 and is expressly authorized to investigate allegations of human rights violations by members of the Organization of American States, which includes the United States. The commission's seven members are elected in their individual capacity by the General Assembly of the OAS. Every country has the right to put up one candidate. "It's an organization that has had an enormous amount of credibility in the Americas for over 50 years,"
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