04/09/2012: During criminal proceedings in Peru, Telmo Hurtado - a former military officer and defendant in CJA's Accomarca Case - confessed to his role in the 1985 massacre of 69 villagers in Accomarca, Peru. Hurtado also revealed that he was ordered to cover up the role of senior officials in the massacre.

02/25/2012: On February 23, 2012, a U.S. immigration judge ruled that Gen. Eugenio Vides Casanova, the former defense minister of El Salvador, can be removed from the United States for the torture of Salvadoran citizens, the 1980 killings of four American churchwomen, and the 1981 killings of two Americans and a Salvadoran land reformer.

02/23/2012: Former Somali General Mohamad Ali Samantar accepted liability before U.S. federal judge Leonie Brinkema for torture, extrajudicial killing, war crimes and other human rights abuses committed against the civilian population of Somalia during the brutal Siad Barre regime. This draws to an end a seven year quest in the U.S. courts for justice for those harmed by General Samantar and troops under his command.

02/22/2012: Join us for CJA's 2012 Annual Event, Celebrating our Victories in the Movement for Global Justice, featuring: Keynote Speaker Kerry Kennedy; former U.S. Ambassador Robert White, Ambassador to El Salvador during the country’s Civil War and recipient of the 2012 Judith Lee Stronach Human Rights Award; Mexico’s Lydia Cacho, a courageous journalist, human rights defender, and recipient of Champion of Justice Award; and CJA client Sophany Bay, a Khmer Rouge survivor who lost almost 100 members of her family.

02/10/2012: The United States has indicted Inocente Orlando Montano, a retired Salvadoran colonel and a defendant in CJA's Jesuits Massacre Case in Spain, on federal criminal immigration fraud and perjury charges. Montano is accused of making false statement regarding his involvement in human rights abuses in his application for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a humanitarian immigration benefit for Salvadorans unable to return safely to their home country.

02/01/2012: On January 17, 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued a key ruling in CJA’s effort to gain legal recognition that rape by state actors equals torture. The Court held that Greece violated international law when it denied proper legal recourse to Necati Zontul, a gay asylum-seeker who was brutally raped by Greek coastguard agents while held in immigration detention.

01/25/2012: Guatemalan Attorney General, Claudia Paz y Paz, demands that former dictator Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt face genocide charges for his role in the "scorched earth" campaign during the country's civil war in the 1980s. The accusations include torture, genocide, forced disappearances, state terrorism and crimes against humanity. CJA fully supports this prosecution and will do everything possible to make sure justice is served.

01/12/2012: CJA has confirmed that the formal extradition requests from the Spanish Government have arrived in El Salvador, with simultaneous transmittal to the United States likely, for fifteen former members of the Salvadoran military, including members of the high command. The defendants have all been charged with conspiracy to assassinate and the assassination of 5 Spanish Jesuits and 3 Salvadoran citizens. Of these requests, 13 are for defendants in El Salvador, and 2 are for defendants in the United States

11/08/2011: On November 7, 2011, a US federal court refused to dismiss a human rights suit brought by CJA client Abukar Hassan Ahmed, a former law professor who was tortured and arbitrarily detained in Somalia in the 1980s. The court denied immunity to Defendant Magan, a current Ohio resident who once served as Chief of the National Security Service of the Somalia Department of Investigations.