The prosecutor criminally pursuing Ruth López, a human rights defender and anti-corruption lawyer, is Berty Manuel Acevedo, son of the chief of the Estado Mayor Presidencial (Presidential General Staff, EMP), Manuel Antonio Acevedo López. The Presidential General...
In early May, the farming cooperative of El Bosque in Santa Tecla, one of El Salvador’s largest cities, received an eviction notice; a new battle in a decades-old fight for land. In response, community members organised a peaceful sit-in near hardline President Nayib...
The Twelfth Peace Court ordered Ruth Eleonora López to six months of pre-trial detention for the crime of illicit enrichment. According to her defense team, the judge determined that the community ties presented were not sufficient to prove she would not flee the...
The decree for the Foreign Agents Law, which establishes a 30% tax on transactions and donations received by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), will take effect this Saturday, June 7, 2025, eight days after its publication in the Official Gazette. Beginning on...
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...
