Maanvi Singh A group of 18 Venezuelan men whom the US expelled to a notorious Salvadorian mega-prison are demanding that Salvadorian authorities be held internationally accountable for human rights violations, detailing new allegations of torture, sexual assault and...
The organization stated that of the 500 cases addressed in the report, the Izalco prison accounts for a total of 210 deaths. “The Izalco prison is the largest torture center in El Salvador,” asserted Ingrid Escobar, a human rights defender and director of...
Carlos was arrested at seven months’ gestation. The baby finished developing inside his mother behind bars, after she was captured on October 12, 2022, on charges of illicit association in Cuscatlán, southeast of San Salvador. Her detention came seven months...
Team WOLA Since its implementation in March 2022, the regime has led to the mass detention of more than 91,000 people, many of them without warrants or sufficient evidence, in a context of serious violations of due process. Both national and international...
Nayib Bukele’s government insists, time and again, that in El Salvador there is no persecution and no arrest warrants against journalists. That is what Vice President Félix Ulloa told ABC a few weeks ago during an interview in Madrid. A claim that is...
Paolo Luers, March 27, 2026 Today, more than ever in its recent history, the country needs a strong, economically solid, independent, and courageous press. It is a failure of civil society that it lacked the capacity to sustain a media outlet so obviously under...
