The investigation of Rafael Segura’s legal case represents progress for survivors of torture and arbitrary detention during the civil war in El Salvador. Read More about “Torture in El Salvador: Ex-Political Prisoners Challenge Impunity”…

A new set of 94 declassified U.S. government documents have been added to the Unfinished Sentences FOIA Library. Several documents are the first to be released from a previously unknown cache of intelligence records, which is now sought for full declassification. Read More about “Newly Declassified Documents Point to El Salvador Intelligence Cache”…

Our Mission

Unfinished Sentences is an initiative of the University of Washington Center for Human Rights to encourage public participation in support of human rights in El Salvador. Through this effort, we aim to document and share the stories of survivors of crimes against humanity committed in the context of El Salvador’s armed conflict, and to support Salvadoran efforts for truth and accountability.