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Article on the trial and successful judgment against CJA defendant and former Chilean military officer Armando Fernandez Larios for the killing of Winston Cabello.

Article on the $4 million judgment against former Chilean military official Armando Fernandez Larios in a case brought by CJA.

A Modesto resident was accused in a lawsuit Tuesday of playing a key role in the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, an outspoken critic of human rights abuses in El Salvador…

A San Francisco-based human rights group filed a landmark lawsuit yesterday in the case of slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, accusing a former Salvadoran Air Force officer of involvement in the 1980 assassination of the revered Roman Catholic leader…

We take a look at the case of a torture-victim from El Salvador who confronted two former Salvadoran generals living in the U.S. He won a watershed victory last summer when a jury ruled that the two generals held “command responsibility” over abuses by the military.

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…