CJA

Daniel Alvarado said he was kidnapped by government agents in El Salvador, hung blindfolded from a ceiling, shocked with electrical wires and repeatedly beaten…

A federal jury in Memphis yesterday found a former military colonel from El Salvador responsible for crimes against humanity during that country’s civil war in the 1980’s and ordered him to pay $6 million in damages…

Even now, 11 1/2 years after she was gang-raped and beaten by masked men in military uniforms, the woman known as Jane Doe II recoils at giving any hint to her identity or whereabouts…

A former Salvadoran Army colonel was in a U.S. court Monday to defend himself against accusations that his soldiers tortured and killed civilians during El Salvador’s civil war in the 1980s…

It’s been more than a decade, but one woman can still hear the tiny voice that broke through the silence after she was brutally raped by paramilitary officers in Haiti. “Mom, did you die?” her young son asked her in the darkness. “Did you die?…”

One morning in November 1981, three armed Somali security officers showed up at Bashe Abdi Yousuf’s warehouse. They pushed him into a Land Cruiser, drove him to a detention center and tortured him for two months…

Article on a Miami federal appeals court’s decision to uphold a $4 million judgment against CJA defendant and former Chilean military officer Armando Fernandez Larios.

Article on CJA defendant Armando Fernandez Larios’ unsuccessful attempt to appeal a 2003 verdict that found him liable for the 1973 killing of Winston Cabello.