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...
David Ortiz of Tutela Legal Dra. María Julia Hernández argues that the police’s well-documented pattern of unlawful detentions makes it entirely plausible that innocent students are among the 40 youths taken from three public schools and charged by the Fiscalía...
In a joint statement marking the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Tutela Legal “María Julia Hernández” (María Julia Hernández Legal Aid), the Comisión de Trabajo en Derechos Humanos (Commission for Human Rights Work) and the Centro para la Promoción...
President Nayib Bukele rose to power on the back of gang support. El Faro, the digital outlet that has become a benchmark in the fight against corruption and the defense of civil rights, has documented the pact, and for that revelation seven of its...
