The bishops of El Salvador generated international headlines with a pastoral letter in May that included a call to the Bukele government to cease offering this small Central American nation as an “international prison.” But their letter, “A voice of hope crying out in...
San Salvador’s 12th Peace Court on Thursday ordered prominent lawyer and human rights defender Ruth López, arrested just over two weeks ago, to be remanded to pre-trial detention. Her trial has been ordered sealed at the request of the Attorney General’s...
The Twelfth Peace Court of San Salvador will hold the initial hearing this Wednesday against human rights defender and anti-corruption lawyer Ruth López. “They’ve requested a complete seal out of fear. What are they afraid of? Of having made a baseless accusation, of...
The Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR) urged El Salvador to refrain from arbitrary detentions and to comply with “international standards,” according to...
“I am a political prisoner. All the accusations are because of my legal work, because I exposed this government’s corruption,” anti-corruption lawyer Ruth López said Wednesday upon learning the decision from San Salvador’s Twelfth Peace Court,...
Her arrest marks one of the most notorious escalations of authoritarianism in the country in the last month, which included threats to journalists, arrests of public transport entrepreneurs, and arbitrary detentions of a lawyer and a campesino representative. “Today,...
