Spanish Justice
- September 21, 2006
As dusk approached and a light rain fell over Guatemala’s Supreme Court plaza, Nobel Peace Prize recipient Rigoberta Menchú sought to buoy the spirits of the human rights activists, local clergy and Mayan women gathered there. “The Supreme Court hasn’t given the green light on judging Ríos Montt yet,” she said of the longstanding quest to bring the former dictator to trial. “But don’t lose hope; we’ll fight the rest of our lives to see there’s full justice for the genocide in Guatemala.”
Judge in Guatemala Genocide Case Issues Arrest Warrants and Freezes Assets of Rios Montt and Other Defendants
- July 7, 2006
Court Rules That U.S. Government Cannot Evade Subpoenas
- June 19, 2006
Former Salvadoran official held liable for torture. Jury awards $6 million to four victims
- November 19, 2005
Daniel Alvarado said he was kidnapped by government agents in El Salvador, hung blindfolded from a ceiling, shocked with electrical wires and repeatedly beaten…
Ex-Salvadoran Colonel Is Ordered to Pay for Crimes Against Humanity
- November 19, 2005
A federal jury in Memphis yesterday found a former military colonel from El Salvador responsible for crimes against humanity during that country’s civil war in the 1980’s and ordered him to pay $6 million in damages…
They live in fear as he walks free
- November 17, 2005
Even now, 11 1/2 years after she was gang-raped and beaten by masked men in military uniforms, the woman known as Jane Doe II recoils at giving any hint to her identity or whereabouts…
Torture Suit Begins for Salvadoran Officer
- October 31, 2005
A former Salvadoran Army colonel was in a U.S. court Monday to defend himself against accusations that his soldiers tortured and killed civilians during El Salvador’s civil war in the 1980s…
Haitian women sue former strongman
- September 13, 2005
It’s been more than a decade, but one woman can still hear the tiny voice that broke through the silence after she was brutally raped by paramilitary officers in Haiti. “Mom, did you die?” her young son asked her in the darkness. “Did you die?…”
