Since the night of Tuesday, 24 June, parents and relatives of forty students from public institutes such as INFRAMEN, INTI, and Albert Camus have been scrambling for information about their children, whom the Fiscalía General de la República (Attorney General’s...
Enrique Anaya was detained by police earlier this month on money laundering allegations just days after calling Bukele a “dictator” on live TV. His arrest has been the subject of an outcry by human rights defenders. “Unfortunately, the result was not what we had hoped...
Caballero told El Diario de Hoy that the human-rights situation in El Salvador “requires particular attention,” especially in light of the arrest and hotly contested indictment of constitutional lawyer Enrique Anaya and his anti-corruption colleague, Ruth López. “We...
Dozens of journalists from El Salvador have gone into exile over the last month in the face of escalating government harassment, intimidation and arbitrary press restrictions, according to the Journalists Association of El Salvador. The group, known by its Spanish...
APES has documented the forced displacement of no fewer than forty reporters in recent months, most of them in the last few weeks. It attributes the exodus to “harassment, intimidation, and arbitrary restrictions” imposed by Salvadoran officials on their journalistic...
In July 2023 the Legislative Assembly adopted a decree of “special transitional provisions” for prosecuting detainees swept up under the state of exception that underpins President Nayib Bukele’s March 2022 “war” on gangs. The measure raised the ceiling on pretrial...
