Case Updates
An Initial Victory in Ahmed v. Magan
On November 7, 2011, a US federal court refused to dismiss a human rights suit brought by CJA client Abukar Hassan Ahmed, a former law professor who was tortured and arbitrarily detained in Somalia in the 1980s. The court denied immunity to Defendant Magan, a current Ohio resident who once served as Chief of the National Security Service of the Somalia Department of Investigations…
Resources
“The Invisible Country,” by Tristan McConnell and Narayan Mahon, Virginia Quarterly Review 15 January 2010
A moving reportage on the legacy of Barre-era war crimes in Somaliland: “The President told us there was a war,” Abokor said, “that the cities we had known were now cities of ghosts, that our people were refugees. He told us it was our fault.”
