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Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday accused an El Salvador judge of using an investigation into a 1981 massacre to prosecute a local human rights activist over false accusations of supporting an amnesty law that barred prosecution of atrocities. The human rights activist, Rubén Zamora, has sought accountability for the 1981 El Mozote massacre and [...]

Human rights organizations lodged a criminal complaint Friday against 25 El Salvadoran soldiers and a former officer for their alleged involvement in the murder of four Dutch journalists during the 12 year civil war. The complaint, which was filed in the municipality of Dulce Nombre de Maria, comes against a backdrop of protracted international activism [...]

Spain’s National Court announced Friday that the former colonel and deputy minister, Orlando Montano Morales, has been sentenced to 133 years and four months in prison on charges of murdering five Jesuits in 1989.  The court found him guilty of five charges of “murder of a terrorist nature” and imposed a sentence of 26 years, [...]

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday in favor of the Yukon First Nations in their action to fight the Yukon government's proposed plan to allow further economic development...

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: Qualcomm filed three lawsuits against Apple Thursday, seeking compensation for alleged patent infringement. According to Qualcomm, Apple uses technologies that Qualcomm...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) extradited 75-year-old Inocente Orlando Montano, a former El Salvador colonel, to Spain to face charges for his alleged involvement in the 1989 murder of eight individuals that included...

A court in El Salvador will reopen an investigation related to the Mozote Massacre of 1981 which occurred during the country's Civil War, according to human rights lawyers on the case Saturday. Lawyers from the Center for Justice and International...

The Supreme Court of El Salvador on Saturday ordered the release of three ex-military officers who had been jailed for killing six Jesuit priests during the country's civil war. In 1989 a team of about...

The Supreme Court of El Salvador on Wednesday struck down the amnesty law of 1993 , opening the way for prosecution of those associated with various war crimes and crimes against humanity during the...

El Salvador's Supreme Court ruled Monday that the country's street gangs and those who support them financially will now be classified as terrorist groups. The ruling was made as part of a...