CJA In The News

The Centre for Justice and Accountability (CJA) called for Sri Lanka’s war-affected communities to be involved in meaningful consultations “ at every level” to shape an accountability mechanism to prosecute for war crimes in Sr Lanka, and warned against attempts to “water down” a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council.

CJA sends letter to Ambassador Keith M. Harper, U.S. Representative to the U.N. Human Rights Council, as first draft of U.S.-led resolution on Sri Lanka in presented before the UN Human Rights Council. Click here to read the letter.

On September 16, the Fourth Circuit will hear oral argument in Warfaa v. Ali, a case brought by the Center for Justice and Accountability under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) and Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA) alleging war crimes and other violations of fundamental human rights.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit will hear oral arguments on Wednesday over whether to uphold dismissal of human rights abuse claims brought under the Alien Tort Statute against Colonel Yusuf Abdi Ali, who controlled a region in northern Somalia during the regime of military dictator Mohamed Siad Barré in the 1980s.

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to hear CJA case against war criminal living in Virginia. Court to rule on Alien Tort Statute, legislation widely used to prosecute human rights abuses.

CJA and pro bono co-counsel DLA Piper presented oral argument in an appeal before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Warfaa v. Ali, a case brought by a Somali torture survivor against the responsible war criminal currently living in Virginia.

Former Salvadoran Col. Inocente Orlando Montano sat in an orange jumpsuit in a North Carolina courtroom Aug. 19 as a federal judge considered his fate.

A court in North Carolina is deciding whether to extradite Inocente Orlando Montano to Spain for the killing of six priests during El Salvador’s civil war.

An extradition hearing Wednesday for Inocente Orlando Montano is the latest twist in a case that stretches back to 1989, when authorities say members of the military killed six priests and two witnesses.

Todavía no hay una decisión tomada para extraditar a España al exviceministro de Seguridad Pública Inocente Orlando Montano, acusado de participar en el asesinato de seis jesuitas en 1989. En su lugar, la jueza Kimberly Swank abrió un nuevo plazo, hasta el 18 de septiembre, para fundamentar más las posiciones a favor y en contra de la extradición.