In his law practice , he is best known for bringing the case of Victims of Sabra and Shatila v. Ariel Sharon et al. , under the law of universal jurisdiction in Belgium , where his clients won a judgment on 12 February 2003 against the accused before a change in Belgian law removed the jurisdiction of the court . Other cases he pursued included one against Saddam Hussein , who was the object of an international campaign initiated in 1995 by Mallat with officials in Kuwait , London and Washington that developed into INDICT , a nongovernmental organisation he helped found in Britain in 1996 . By 1998 , INDICT had received open support in the American Congress and in the British Parliament , and was embraced by then US President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair . The campaign laid the ground for a case against Saddam Hussein in Belgium in 2002 , and his eventual trial in Iraq in 2005 . A third case was won against Muammar Gaddafi in Beirut courts for the families of the historic leader of the Shi'i community Musa al-Sadr and his two companions , journalist Abbas Badreddin and cleric Muhammad Ya ` qub , who disappeared in Libya upon their official invitation by Gaddafi in August 1978 . Mallat also helped establish the Middle East regional office of Amnesty International in Beirut in 1999 for which his law firm has acted since as legal counsel . Led by directors Kamel Labidi and Ahmad Karaoud , both former prisoners of opinion in Tunisia , the regional office formed an inspiring precedent to a multitude of civil society organizations across the Middle East focusing on the promotion of human rights , accountability , and the abolition of the death penalty
Sabra and Shatila
Sabra and Shatila massacre
Chibli Mallat