Jesuits Case: one doubtful sentence legality

Authors

  • Arnau Baulenas Bardia Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51378/eca.v75i763.3281

Keywords:

The Jesuit Case, National Court, Criminal Court, Amnesty Act

Abstract

In the Jesuit Case trial in El Salvador, on Thursday, October 29, 2020, the Salvadoran justice system once again sided with the alleged war criminals. In this case, it was the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, through its ruling issued at 8:30 a.m. on September 8, 2020, signed by presiding judge José Roberto Argueta Manzano and alternate judge Juan Manuel Bolaños Sandoval.2 A few weeks after learning of the Spanish National Court’s ruling against former Colonel Inocente Montano, convicted in Spain as one of the masterminds behind the Jesuit case,3 the Salvadoran justice system, through the Criminal Chamber, decided that the other alleged masterminds of the UCA Massacre should not be investigated in El Salvador, despite the ruling declaring the Amnesty Law unconstitutional.

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Published

2020-12-31

How to Cite

Bardia, A. B. (2020). Jesuits Case: one doubtful sentence legality. ECA: Estudios Centroamericanos, 75(763), 11–20. https://doi.org/10.51378/eca.v75i763.3281

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