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

01/10/2012: On Wednesday January 4, 2012, Inocente Orlando Montano, one of the indicted defendants in the Jesuits Massacre Case, will appear in Federal District Court in Boston to enter a plea to criminal charges of immigration fraud and perjury for lying about his role in committing human rights abuses. Live updates on the hearing will be tweeted (CJA_News) on Wednesday.

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.

10/27/2011: CJA filed an amicus brief supporting plaintiffs' petition for a rehearing en banc of an 11th Circuit appellate panel's decision that plaintiffs failed to make out a claim of command responsibility against former Bolivian officials for the killing of indigenous protestors. The brief argues that the 11th Circuit decision contravenes the well-established doctrine of command responsibility under both domestic and international law.

08/10/2011: On August 24, 2011, the Salvadoran Supreme Court ordered the release of nine former Salvadoran military officials responsible for the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests and two women, including the former Defense Minister Rafael Humberto Larios and Air Force General Rafael Bustillo. The defendants had been in custody since August 7, 2011, when they surrendered themselves to military authorities to avoid being detained by the National Civil Police, but were transferred to a civilian court. The former military officials have been indicted in Spain for crimes against humanity and state terrorism.

07/26/2011: Guatemalan National Civil Police arrested former Guatemalan National Police Chief Pedro Garcia Arredondo on July 24 for the 1981 forced disappearance of Edgar Saenz Colito and for his participation in the hundreds of forced disappearances and brutal killings by Guatemalan security forces in the 1980’s. Garcia Arredondo has also been charged with participating in the 1980 Spanish Embassy burning in Guatemala, in addition to facing claims in Spain for terrorism, genocide and systematic torture.