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BBC News - Manuel Noriega sues Activision over Call of DutyManuel Noriega, the former dictator of Panama, is suing Call of Duty's video games publisher.
The ex-military ruler is seeking lost profits and damages after a character based on him featured in Activision's 2012 title Black Ops II.
The 80-year-old is currently serving a jail sentence in Panama for crimes committed during his time in power, including the murder of critics.
One lawyer said this was the latest in a growing trend of such lawsuits.
"In the US, individuals have what's called the right to publicity, which gives them control over how their person is depicted in commerce including video games," explained Jas Purewal, an interactive entertainment lawyer
The former leader of Panama, General Manuel Antonio Noriega, has undergone a second operation after suffering a haemorrhage following brain surgery. His daughter Thays said he was critically ill and had been taken back to the operating theatre at the Santo Tomas hospital in Panama City. Noriega, 83, was released from prison in January to allow him to prepare for the operation. He was jailed in Panama for murder, corruption and embezzlement.
The former military ruler (pictured in 2011) was jailed following the US invasion of Panama in 1989
Doctors were successful in halting the haemorrhage during the second operation, but Noriega remains in intensive care. "He is sedated,'' said his lawyer Ezra Angel. "His condition is critical after undergoing a (second) open brain surgery in less than eight hours." Noriega suffered from vascular ailments and has been reliant on a wheelchair.
Although he was never the actual president of Panama, General Noriega was the key figure from 1983 to 1989 - and a key US ally in Central America for four decades. The former military ruler, who is now 83, was jailed following the US invasion of Panama in 1989. After serving 20 years in the US he was sent to France, where he was sentenced to seven years for money laundering. Noriega was convicted in absentia of crimes carried out during his rule and extradited from France to Panama to serve his sentence in 2011.
Ex-Panama ruler General Noriega suffers brain haemorrhage - BBC News
President Juan Carlos Varela announced Noriega's death on Twitter late on Monday, and said his passing marked the closing of a chapter in Panama's history. Noriega, who ruled Panama from 1983 to 1989, spied for the Central Intelligence Agency until the United States invaded and toppled his corrupt government, ending a criminal career that saw him working with drug traffickers like Pablo Escobar. Noriega was initially sentenced in the United States in 1992 but was serving a sentence for murder in Panama when he died.
Manuel Noriega, 77, Panama's former strongman, poses for a photograph in this picture received by Reuters in Panama City December 14, 2011.
The wily military ruler of the Central American nation made world headlines as his relationship with Washington soured, culminating in the United States sending nearly 28,000 troops to seize Panama City and capture him in a house-to-house hunt. Noriega spent the rest of his life in custody between the United States, France and Panama for crimes ranging from murder to racketeering and drug-running. The former dictator had undergone an operation in March to remove a brain tumor but suffered a hemorrhage and had been in a coma since a second surgical intervention.
A government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Noriega died at around 11 p.m. local time after his condition suddenly worsened. With the knowledge of U.S. officials, Noriega formed "the hemisphere's first narcokleptocracy," a U.S. Senate subcommittee report said, calling him, "the best example in recent U.S. foreign policy of how a foreign leader is able to manipulate the United States to the detriment of our own interests." After his capture, Noriega tried to turn the tables on the United States, saying it had worked hand in glove with him.
Former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega dies at 83
