According to information from the authorities, the perpetrator was a soldier from the Armed Forces, identified as Derman Fernando Jorge Benítez, who reportedly fired his weapon accidentally. This official version, however, emerged only around 11 p.m., by which time it...
A soldier stationed in the Historic Center of San Salvador reportedly discharged his firearm accidentally, killing a woman on Thursday afternoon, the police reported after concluding initial interrogations and preliminary inquiries. The incident occurred at...
The police (PNC) and the Fuerza Armada de El Salvador (FAES) confirmed on Thursday, November 6, the arrest of a soldier who shot and killed a person in the Centro Histórico of San Salvador. According to the police account, published on X (formerly Twitter), “a...
On 29 October 2025, a hearing was held on their case, during which the defence requested alternative measures for Alejandro and José Ángel after presenting evidence of their ties to the community. The court rejected the measures, and they remain in pre-trial...
Mary Lawlor, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, denounced on Tuesday that El Salvador’s criminal justice system is being used to “silence” activists and lamented that a court refused to grant conditional release to...
A Salvadoran police officer has confessed to participating in at least 97 murders between 2015 and 2020 as a member of a death squad dedicated to executing alleged gang members, according to the Salvadoran newspaper El Faro. The victims include minors, business...
