Three former Salvadoran military officers were convicted by a five-person jury late Tuesday for the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the Central American nation’s civil war. They received 15-year prison sentences. A jury made up of five women...
In El Salvador, three suspects have been found guilty of murdering four Dutch journalists that were working for IKON in 1982. All three were handed a prison sentence of 15 years, several Salvadorian media outlets reported, including the newspaper Diario El Salvador....
After 4:00 p.m. this Monday, June 2, the Fiscalía General de la República (Attorney General’s Office, FGR) filed formal charges against Ruth Eleonora López Alfaro with San Salvador’s Twelfth Peace Court, which was on duty. According to sources close to the...
Lawyer and human rights activist Ruth Eleonora López was criminally charged in El Salvador on Monday for her alleged participation in the embezzlement of public funds, her lawyer Antonio Aguilar reported. Aguilar added that the Fiscalía General de El Salvador (El...
Defense lawyers in the El Bosque Cooperative case informed YSUCA that they will appeal the ruling of the First Peace Court of Santa Tecla, which last Friday ordered six months of pre-trial detention for Pastor José Ángel Pérez of Iglesia Cristiana Elim (Elim Christian...
Salvadoran gangs grew and strengthened for decades in a context of violence, lack of opportunities, and family breakdown. And Nayib Bukele’s security policy, so well-known worldwide, is not addressing the roots of the problem; moreover, it may be laying the...
