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Herbert Ernesto Anaya Sanabria, the 32-year-old coordinator of the non-governmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (CDH), was killed by two armed men in civilian clothes as he left his house on Monday to bring two of his five children to school. No group has claimed responsibility for the murder...
CASA members said at a press conference yesterday that they support CDH members' claim that military-linked death squads killed Anaya, although government officials have said that the killing was an "irrational...
Katz, Emily Yozell, an immigration attorney,and John J. Tobin, adminstrative director ofHarvard's Human Rights Program spoke at the pressconference. They said they had met Anaya in ElSalvador during the past year...
Incoming New Mexico Governor Garrey Carruthers, a Republican, had made his intentions clear: "The first thing I want to see on my desk after I'm elected Governor is the paperwork necessary to restart the death penalty." Last week outgoing Governor Toney Anaya, a Democrat, made certain Carruthers would have to wait a while before ordering executions. In a dramatic move, Anaya commuted the sentences of all five men awaiting death in New Mexico. "For me to simply walk away now will make me as much an accomplice as others who would participate in their execution," said Anaya. A court...
...become a popular cause among liberal religious activists. Some 300 local congregations, including about 100 since the Tucson indictments were filed last year, have declared themselves to be sanctuaries for Central Americans, as have a Methodist seminary, eleven universities, 19 cities and, under an order by Democratic Governor Toney Anaya, the entire state of New Mexico. Also endorsing the movement: the American Baptist, Presbyterian and United Methodist churches, United Church of Christ, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the rabbinical arms of Conservative and Reform Judaism...