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Falun Gong supporters celebrated a report issued by a federal magistrate supporting the rights of six Bay Area practitioners to sue the mayor of Beijing for his alleged involvement in police abuse of the religious group’s members during a 1999 rally.

Article on CJA’s case against former Chilean military official Armando Fernandez Larios, and client Zita Cabello-Barrueto’s years spent pursuing justice for her brother’s death.

It was past 1 a.m. and Berta Oliva was sleeping when a loud knock on the door jarred her awake. Before she could answer, Honduran government security forces broke down the door, and dragged her husband, Tomás Nativí, out of bed. Berta, three months pregnant, clutched him, but security forces struck her to the ground and knocked her unconscious. She never saw her husband again…

Reports on the deportation of Dorélien and another Haitian perpetrator, Herbert Valmond, back to Haiti to stand trial for the 1994 Raboteau massacre…

Covers the filing of CJA’s civil suit against Dorélien…

Bay Area organizations, backed by high-powered corporate attorneys, are taking the lead in a growing movement that uses U.S. courts to go after abusers of human rights worldwide.

A federal jury in a civil lawsuit ruled yesterday that two retired Salvadoran generals now living in South Florida were responsible for acts of torture committed 20 years ago by troops under their command.

El Salvador’s vice president said Wednesday that a U.S. jury had no right to order two former Salvadoran generals to pay $54.6 million in damages to torture victims of the country’s 1980-1992 civil war.

A federal jury ordered two retired Salvadoran generals today to pay $54.6 million in damages to three civilians who were tortured by security forces during El Salvador’s civil war more than 20 years ago.

Reopening a bloody wound from two decades ago, a U.S. federal court in Florida on Tuesday found two retired Salvadoran generals responsible for torture, rape and other atrocities committed during El Salvador’s civil war.