Judgment in Somalia Human Rights Case Deemed ‘Historic’
- August 20, 2013
A federal magistrate in Columbus has recommended that a former Somali colonel pay a human-rights activist he tortured in Somalia $15 million in damages. Human-rights supporters are hailing the judgment as historic.
Audiencia Para Dictar Sentencia Contra Coronel Montano
- August 20, 2013
El futuro inmediato de Inocente Orlando Montano pasa por una corte de Massachusetts, EUA, que el jueves decidirá si lo manda a la cárcel por fraude migratorio y perjurio. Lo que sigue es la solicitud de extradición de España por la masacre de los sacerdotes jesuitas.
Salvadoran Indicted in Priest Slayings to Face Separate U.S. Immigration Sentencing
- August 17, 2013
Inocente Orlando Montano is expected to stand for federal sentencing on immigration charges next week in Boston, yet it could be the former El Salvadoran military colonel’s alleged war crimes and not his lies on U.S. immigration forms that take center stage.
Conclusion of Sentencing of Former Salvadoran Military Commander Responsible for Jesuits Massacre To Occur Next Week in Boston
- August 14, 2013
Former Salvadoran Vice Minister of Defense for Public Security Inocente Orlando Montano will be sentenced for violating federal criminal immigration fraud and perjury laws in the United States. The sentencing phase, which began in January, should conclude on August 22.
How a Documentary Changed Guatemala’s History
- June 11, 2013
Most documentaries record and preserve history–only a few change the arc of history. In Guatemala in the early 1980s, a young American documentary filmmaker named Pamela Yates bore witness to massive crimes and atrocities at great personal risk to make her film. This year, a quarter-century later, her footage became critical evidence used to convict a military dictator of genocide.
Khmer Rouge survivor travels back to Cambodia to testify at regime leaders’ trial
- June 4, 2013
A California woman is the first Cambodian-American to testify in a trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders, traveling to the capital city of Phnom Penh to give her testimony before a United Nations-backed tribunal.
“If You Tell Them, You Will Be Killed”: Civil Parties’ Stories Heard
- June 4, 2013
On Tuesday, June 4, 2013, a fourth victim impact hearing was held in Case 002 at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Since last Monday, civil parties have testified about the harm they suffered under the Democratic Kampuchea (DK) regime.
Cambodia Tribunal Monitor- “If You Tell Them, You Will Be Killed”: Civil Parties’ Stories Heard
- June 4, 2013
A fourth victim impact hearing was held in Case 002 at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Civil party lawyers questioned their clients, while prosecutors and defense attorneys had limited time to examine them on the facts in Case 002. The civil parties who testified on Tuesday were Cambodian-American Bay Sophany, Soeun Sovandy, and Seng Sivutha.
Somali Torture Victim Who Sued Former Ohio Resident Relieved After Winning Day in Court
- June 4, 2013
Torture victim Abukar Hassan Ahmed was living in London when he decided several years ago to search again for the man he says crippled him during interrogations in Somalia in the 1980s. It took just a half-hour Internet search in 2005 to locate the former government official then living in Ohio. Ahmed finally got the chance to tell his story in court last week after a federal judge ruled in his favor in a lawsuit against the official, Abdi Aden Magan.
Somali Torture Survivor Finally Has His Day in Court
- May 30, 2013
Today, in a federal court in Ohio, CJA client Professor Abukar Ahmed testified about his torture and unlawful detention during the brutal Siad Barre regime in Somalia. The defendant, Colonel Magan, was head of the notorious NSS Department of Investigations which was widely known to inflict psychological terror and physical torture against political prisoners and civilians. For press on the testimony click here, for a press release click here and for more on the case click here.
