An official with the US Department of Justice said the country had the tools to prosecute dual citizen Sri Lankan defence personnel accused of torture and other seriour crimes.
"Jurisdiction Congress has given us allows to prosecute US citizens who have committed acts of torture abroad," David Rybicki, a deputy assistant attorney general, criminal division, Department of Justice told Representative Jim McGovern, during a House Tom Lantos Commission for Human Rights hearing.
"And the Department used that statute to prosecute Chuckie Taylor, son of the former Liberian dictator who received a 97-year sentence," Rybicki said, Economy Next reports.
He added, there are “substantive human rights statutes, immigration, naturalisation law for non-U.S. citizens … or special tools Congress has given us to look at extraterritorial conduct."
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