Herbert Anaya

Herbert Anaya Sanabria Auditorium, Faculty of Jurisprudence and Social Sciences (UES). October 26, 1987. Human rights defender Herbert Anaya Sanabria was assassinated near his home in Colonia Zacamil, Mejicanos. He was the president of the non-governmental organization Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (CDHES). Herbert Ernesto Anaya Sanabria (1954 – October 26, 1987) was the president of the NGO Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (CDHES). He was assassinated on October 26, 1987, close to his home. Herbert Anaya was the fourth leader of CDHES to be murdered or "disappeared" during the 1980s. None of these cases were satisfactorily resolved. Early in 1993 Anaya's son was shot and wounded when armed men tried to intercept the car of his widow Mirna Perla de Anaya.

Life He was born in San Salvador in 1954. During his law study in the 1970s Herbert Anaya joined the student organisation AGEUS and was later one of the founders of the human rights organisation CDHES. In the 1980s he became active in the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). In addition he worked for the committee of the families of persons murdered or disappeared. On May 26, 1986, he was arrested, along with Reynaldo Blanco (future president of the CDHES) by members of the Treasury Police jailed in the La Esperanza prison for nine months where he was interrogated and tortured.

However, these allegations against ERP were rejected by Anaya's wife as well as by the CDHES.