One Death Every Three Days in El Salvador’s Prisons Since State of Exception Began — Un muerto cada tres días en las cárceles de El Salvador, desde que inició régimen de excepción

07/22/2025

The organization Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Legal Humanitarian Aid, SJH) announced on its social media channels that from the onset of the state of exception on March 27, 2022, through Sunday, July 20, 2025, it has documented a total of 430 deaths among individuals...

Lawsuit Planned at International Criminal Court Against Salvadoran State Over Venezuelans Held in CECOT — Alistan demanda ante Corte Penal Internacional contra el Estado salvadoreño por venezolanos en el CECOT

07/22/2025

Human rights organizations and defense attorneys representing the 252 Venezuelans who were held in the Terrorism Confinement Center (Centro de Confinamiento contra el Terrorismo, CECOT) will file a lawsuit before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the...

“It is not fair that my son is paying for something he did not do”: Mother denounces son’s arbitrary arrest — “No es justo que mi hijo esté pagando por algo que no hizo”: madre denuncia captura arbitraria de su hijo

07/22/2025

Family and friends are calling on security and human rights authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into the arrest of 43-year-old Emerson Isaí Sánchez Estrada, which they consider arbitrary and rooted in “erroneous allegations” that lack evidence to support...

Where Is Williams Díaz, Disappeared in Nayib Bukele’s Prisons? — ¿Dónde está Williams Díaz, desaparecido en las cárceles de Nayib Bukele?

07/22/2025

The news reached Doña Gladis Villatoro, his mother, on Sunday, July 20. Her son, Williams Díaz, had been transferred from the Izalco Prison to Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), the megaprison touted by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a model facility...

Venezuela says US migrants were tortured in El Salvador — Venezuela denuncia que migrantes enviados por Estados Unidos fueron torturados en El Salvador

07/22/2025

The Venezuelan Attorney General office on Monday announced an investigation into allegations of torture of migrants sent to an El Salvador prison from the US. The more than 250 Venezuelans were returned home on Friday in a prisoner exchange with the US. They had been...

IMF’s First Review of El Salvador’s Program: How Solid Is Compliance? — La primera revisión del programa de El Salvador con el FMI: ¿cómo ha sido el cumplimiento?

07/22/2025

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the first review of El Salvador’s program on June 27 and, in mid-July, released the staff report (the Report). The document makes it possible to assess how the Salvadoran government implemented the program up to the...