Amnesty International Maastricht Students

The world famous Human Rights Watch lawyer Reed Brody will make a visit to Lumière Cinema, to introduce the film ‘The Dictator Hunter’. This new documentary focuses on Brody’s endeavours to catch Hissèné Habré, the former leader of Chad, who is charged with killing thousands of his own countrymen in the 1980s. Now Habré lives in Senegal where Brody is attempting to have him brought to trial or extradited. Together with ‘Movies that Matter’ and ‘Amnesty International Maastricht Students’, Lumière presents this exclusive public appearance of Reed Brody, a Dutch première. After the film, Reed Brody will be interviewed.

Reed Brody

Reed Brody has been an activist for social justice since his high school days when he was an organizer of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations, In 1987 Brody joined the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva. His lobbying pushed the UN toward a tougher stance against abusive governments in Haiti, Iraq and Indonesia. He also assisted the government of Mongolia with the drafting of its constitution.

From 1992 to 1994 he was executive director of the International Human Rights Law Group in Washington, D.C. where he began a program to train front-line activists.
Joining Human Rights Watch as Advocacy Director in 1998, Brody led a number of high-profile campaigns, including against secret US prisons and the mistreatment of detainees in the “war on terror.” When Chile’s ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in 1998, Brody went to London where his brief helped persuade the House of Lords to strip Pinochet of his immunity. He then sought to extend that precedent to other cases.
For years now, Brody has poured his heart into the prosecution of former dictator Hissène Habré of Chad. Habré's regime (1992-200) is accused of killing 40,000 political opponents and torturing and imprisoning countless others.

Entrance: Normal € 8,- / Students € 4,-