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Caribbean & Central America - September 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)
EL SALVADOR: Justice will not be done
El Salvador’s supreme court ruled by ten to two on 24 August that it will not order the arrest of nine former military men charged with the murder of six Jesuit priests in 1989. The nine men had handed themselves in voluntarily at a military base in El Salvador in early August, but are not under arrest. The supreme court said it would consider an extradition request from Spain if one was forthcoming. This would be a groundbreaking case because those guilty of human rights abuses have been shielded from prosecution by a general amnesty law, passed by a right-wing government in El Salvador in 1993.
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