CJA In The News

One morning in November 1981, three armed Somali security officers showed up at Bashe Abdi Yousuf’s warehouse. They pushed him into a Land Cruiser, drove him to a detention center and tortured him for two months…

Article on a Miami federal appeals court’s decision to uphold a $4 million judgment against CJA defendant and former Chilean military officer Armando Fernandez Larios.

Article on CJA defendant Armando Fernandez Larios’ unsuccessful attempt to appeal a 2003 verdict that found him liable for the 1973 killing of Winston Cabello.

A federal appeals court has reversed a $54.6 million verdict against two retired Salvadoran generals — one of them a Broward County resident — accused of turning a blind eye to the torture of citizens during their country’s bloody civil war two decades ago.

One woman was gang-raped twice for being a pro-democracy leader, another was beaten for speaking out after her husband disappeared at the hands of Haiti’s oppressive military regime, and the third was raped by paramilitaries as a message to her activist husband…

A former paramilitary leader from Haiti has been sued by three women who allege they were gang-raped and beaten by members of his right-wing group. Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, 48, was served with papers on Friday as he left an appointment with the Immigration and Naturalization Service [Immigration Services], said Moira Feeney, an attorney with the San Francisco-based Center for Justice and Accountability…

Dr. Juan Ramogoza, who provided medical care to El Salvador’s poor, was imprisoned and tortured in 1980. He later fled to the United States. Two years ago he sued two Salvadoran generals for his suffering, and won. Now his homeland is honoring him as a “Distinguished Salvadoran Humanist.” Ramogoza speaks with NPR’s Scott Simon.

A California-based human rights group has filed lawsuits accusing two Somali residents of Northern Virginia of war crimes, including ordering torture, killings, rapes and other acts of brutality against a rival clan during the 1980s when they held positions of power in their homeland…