The organization Cristosal denounced today that although 72 hours have passed since the detention of lawyer Ruth Eleonora López, the Fiscalía General de la República (Attorney General’s Office) has neither filed charges against her nor presented her before a...
Internal sources from the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman (Procuraduría para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, PDDH) confirmed to LA PRENSA GRÁFICA the dismissal of the head of the Financial Unit, the head of the Payroll Department, the head of the Human...
The Reverend Lawrence C. Provenzano, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, New York, United States, is considering traveling to El Salvador after learning of the arrest of Ruth Eleonora López, head of Cristosal’s Anti-Corruption and Justice Unit....
We have serious concerns about the adoption of legislation in El Salvador that requires organisations and individuals in receipt of international donor funding to register as “foreign agents”. They will have to pay a 30 per cent tax on their funds, and risk facing...
A lawmaker is organizing a third trip to El Salvador to see the mistakenly deported man Kilmar Abrego Garcia, as Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) heads to the Central American nation with the hopes of visiting his constituent. Ivey is pushing to meet not just with Abrego...
Human rights organizations, politicians and experts have sharply criticized a law approved by El Salvador’s Congress as a censorship tool designed to silence and criminalize dissent in the Central American nation by targeting nongovernmental organizations that...
