In a press release, Cristosal stated that the decision by the Twelfth Peace Court of San Salvador represents a serious setback and an alarming sign of the political use of the judicial system in El Salvador. The pretrial detention of Ruth Eleonora López not only...
While some police officers pushed attorney Ruth López, a human rights defender and anti-corruption investigator, out of a court hearing, others lurked outside the home of Ingrid Escobar, who has documented deaths inside the Salvadoran regime’s prisons. “I am a...
On Thursday night, President Nayib Bukele took to social media to accuse the opposition of allegedly threatening government employees and exposing the identities of judges and prosecutors. He also implied that he could retaliate. “The opposition has spent all...
The first time El Salvador’s authoritarian President Nayib Bukele tried to pass a sweeping “foreign agents” law, which taxes nongovernmental organizations receiving international funding, the global community came down so swiftly in 2021 that the bill was killed...
It has been one year since Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele began his second term , which has been widely regarded as unconstitutional by legal experts, human rights organizations, and grassroots leaders. A cornerstone of the country’s constitutional framework since...
For the past few months, immigrants around the country have been suing the Trump administration at a furious pace, seeking to stop it from deporting them to a prison in El Salvador under an agreement reached this year between the White House and Nayib Bukele, the...
