CJA In The News

Although the perpetrators have yet to be brought to trial for their role in planning and ordering the crime, human rights lawyers at CJA believe they are closer than ever to achieving some measure of justice.

El caso Jesuitas sigue abierto en España. La mujer que impulsa desde 2008 la querella criminal en contra de los autores intelectuales del crimen reflexiona sobre los pactos de impunidad y los intereses políticos que siguen frenando el proceso.

CJA sends a delegation to El Salvador to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Jesuits Massacre and discuss its case before the Spanish National Court.

CJA was featured in a Retro Report interview about our efforts to hold Salvadaron generals living in the U.S. accountable for the human rights abuses committed during El Salvador’s brutal civil war. CJA Senior Legal Advisor Carolyn Patty Blum explains the history behind our efforts. Click here to learn more about our work against these generals.

With the publication of the Retro Report documentary about the killing of four American churchwomen in El Salvador during the 1980s, Clyde Haberman discusses Salvadoran human rights abusers who sought haven in the U.S. and CJA’s casework.

The Daily Beast discusses CJA’s case against two Salvadoran ex-generals currently living in the United States as it looks back on the tragic killing of four American churchwomen.

Vice News discusses CJA’s letter to US officials calling on them to break away from the previous administration’s “intellectually dishonest” reading of the torture treaty.

A Haiti investigative judge assigned to look into allegations of corruption and crimes against humanity by former President-for-Life Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier is continuing to pursue the case despite Duvalier’s death.

Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with CJA Legal Director Kathy Roberts, who discusses her concern about a current debate on torture within the Obama administration that could revive the Bush administration interpretation that the U.S. government had the option of engaging in cruel,inhuman or degrading treatment of prisoners it holds abroad.

After The New York Times released a report indicating that lawyers in President Obama’s administration were considering taking a position that the Convention Against Torture applies only to acts of torture committed within the United States, CJA sent U.S. officials a letter strongly urging them to maintain that torture is illegal everywhere. Click here to read the letter.