The legal team representing environmental attorney Alejandro Henríquez and pastor and community leader José Ángel Pérez filed a habeas corpus petition on Wednesday with the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), seeking to overturn the...
The Chamber thus ratified López’s provisional detention on a charge of illicit enrichment. Officers arrested her on 18 May at her home. On Thursday, El Diario de Hoy sought comment from López’s attorneys, who replied that the proceedings are subject to a total...
The initiative is already under way. On 12 June, Prime Minister Eduardo Arana informed Congress that the government intends to transfer foreign prisoners to El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Terrorism Confinement Center, CECOT), the high-security...
Colombian attorney Andrés Guzmán—until May El Salvador’s commissioner for human rights and freedom of expression—insists that “40,000 gang members still need to be captured” because authorities have identified “120,000 gang members inside the country.” “I do not think...
Temporary Decree 803, now in force in El Salvador and set to expire on 25 August, establishes special transitional rules for prosecuting defendants arrested under the state of exception, according to criminal attorney Roxana Cardona. Cardona maintains that...
Salvadoran Consul in San Luis Potosí Edwin Ronaldo Hurtado sidestepped every question regarding the situation of Alejandro Antonio Henríquez Flores, a graduate of the Master’s in Human Rights program at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí...
