Criminal
Nov. 16, 2007
Tortured Doctor Takes His Case to Congress
Juan Romagoza Arce, right, and his attorney, Pamela Merchant, asked Congress Wednesday to see that El Salvador generals are prosecuted.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - When the National Guard in El Salvador detained Juan Romagoza Arce, it promised to take him to the best hotel in town.
Guardsmen instead spent the next 22 days torturing the young doctor, who claims to this day that he was not politically active during the civil war that crippled El Salvador during the 1980s.
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