CJA is an international human rights organization dedicated to ending torture and other severe human rights abuses around the world. http://www.cja.org
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- San Francisco, California 1998
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- Conference Marking 20th Annive...
St. Ignatius Church, USF Campus, Sa...
Monday, November 16 at 10:30am - 20th Anniversary of the Jesuit...
Mission Street and 24th Street, San...
Monday, November 16 at 4:00pm - Survivor's Perspectives on Int...
The Women's Building, 3543 18th Str...
Thursday, October 22 at 6:00pm - Survivor's Perspectives on Int...
The Women's Building
Thursday, October 22 at 6:00pm - CJA'S 10th Anniversary With Dr...
The City Club
Tuesday, March 17 at 6:30pm - CJA Facebook Page Launch
The Internet
Monday, February 16 at 9:00pm
www.foreignpolicy.com
For the two decades that he has been free, Souleymane Guengueng has constantly relived the two years he spent in a Chadian prison, where he watched hundreds of cellmates die from torture and disease. Thrown ...
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Mohamed Ali Samantar, who was the defense minister (1980-86) and prime minister (1987-90) during the military dictatorship of the late Somali president Mohamed Siad Barre, claims that he "always respected the rule of law" and "served the people rightly and justly" ["I a...m no monster," front page, ...
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Washington, 2 Mar (Notimex).- La Suprema Corte de Justicia de Estados Unidos recibirá esta semana una demanda contra un ex ministro somalí que podría tener profundas implicaciones en las relaciones estadunidenses ...
Center for Justice and Accountability Excellent NPR radio piece & article on Samantar v. Yousuf by Nina Totenberg.
www.npr.org
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on Wednesday in a case testing whether torture victims living in the United States may sue their tormentors, who also live here.
Center for Justice and Accountability An in-depth, blow by blow summary of yesterday's oral arguments in Samantar v. Yousuf.
www.scotusblog.com
Showing some hesitancy to leave it to the State Department to decide when foreign government officials can be sued in U.S. courts for human rights abuses, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled to figure ...
www.nytimes.com
The Supreme Court wrestled with seemingly conflicting laws in determining whether foreign officials can be sued in the United States.
www.huffingtonpost.com
The Court decides this week whether former foreign government officials who ordered torture are subject to suit in the U.S.. There is no question that Congress intended for the answer to be yes.
Center for Justice and Accountability CJA's case on accountability for torture in Somalia is being argued before the Supreme Court tomorrow morning! Read a preview of the case here.
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The 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) provides the exclusive framework for deciding when foreign governments are entitled to immunity from suit in U.S. courts. [1] Over the years, the Supreme Court has played an integral role in interpreting the statute. ...
Center for Justice and Accountability Tonight at 10:00 pm on 20/20, ABC will air a story on Samantar v. Yousuf, CJA's supreme court case on torture in Somalia.
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Former Somali Gen. Mohammed Samantar is accused of wartime atrocities -- yet he lives in peace in suburban Washington, D.C. There are an estimated 1,000 alleged human rights crime perpetrators like him currently in the United States.
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In a classic Friday night document dump, the House Judiciary Committee released the long-awaited Department of Justice report on the conduct of former Office of Legal Counsel lawyers Jay Bybee and John ...
Center for Justice and Accountability High Court To Hear Torture Case: the Daily Journal discusses CJA's Yousuf v. Samantar case before the Supreme Court.
pda-appellateblog.blogspot.com
DAILY JOURNAL NEWSWIRE ARTICLEhttp://www.dailyjournal.com© 2010 The Daily Journal Corporation.All rights reserved.Posted with permission. This file cannot be downloaded from this page. The Daily Journal's ...
Center for Justice and Accountability More press on CJA's Yousuf v. Samantar case.
Judgments.co.uk - Landmark case on sovereign immunity for claims from victims of torture to be heard
www.judgments.co.uk
The Centre for Justice and Accountability's landmark case - Samantar v Yousuf - is to be heard by the US supreme court, which will determine whether foreign officials have absolute sovereign immunity from claims brought by victims of torture
Center for Justice and Accountability The New York Times covers the Center for Justice & Accountability's Somalia human rights case before the Supreme Court.
www.nytimes.com
Three Somalian refugees were shocked to learn in 2002 that a former Somali official they believed responsible for brutality against their family was living freely in the United States.
CJA:Supporters of Somali Torture Survivors File Amici Curiae Briefs with the Supreme Court in Sama..
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Washington, D.C. – CJA announced today that nine amicus curiae briefs were filed with the United States Supreme Court yesterday in support of the respondents in the case of Samantar v. Yousuf, NO. ...
Center for Justice and Accountability Sen. Arlen Specter files brief supporting CJA's Somalia case before the supreme court.
legaltimes.typepad.com
Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) today is filing a brief on behalf of himself and two other members of Congress in a closely-watched human rights case testing whether foreign torture victims can seek damages in U.S. courts. The case, which will...
