Video: Berkeley Law tackles border killing case

The agents involved were not prosecuted, although the beating was videotaped

a group of people sit around a table looking at laptops — Faculty and students of BerkeleyLaw’s International Human Rights Law clinic have brought the case of the 2010 killing of Anastasio Rojas by U.S. border agents before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. It’s the first time a case about an extrajudicial killing by U.S. law enforcement has been examined by an international human rights body. Prof. Roxanna Altholz, co-director of the clinic and Berkeley alumnus, is leading the case alongside her former Berkeley classmate, Andrea Guerrero, Executive Director of the non-profit, Alliance San Diego. (video still)

April 21, 2023

Faculty and students from Berkeley Law have brought the 2010 killing of Anastasio Rojas before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. (UC Berkeley video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Alan Toth)

A team of Berkeley Law students and faculty affiliated with the school’s International Human Rights Law Clinic have succeded in bringing the 2010 killing of Anastasio Rojas by U.S. Border Patrol agents in front of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which is charged with promoting and protecting human rights in the American hemisphere.

In this video, Roxanna Altholz, co-director of the clinic and a clinical professor of law, and Berkeley Law students, discuss the case and how they hope it can be resolved.

For more on this story check out Berkeley Law’s coverage here.