US jury finds BNP Paribas liable for complicity in Sudan atrocities

US jury finds BNP Paribas liable for complicity in Sudan atrocities
The French bank is accused of contributing to atrocities committed under the regime of Omar al-Bashir. The plaintiffs told the federal court in Manhattan that they had been tortured, burnt with cigarettes, slashed with a knife and, in the case of the woman, sexually assaulted.