The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) has restricted access to agricultural statistical yearbooks from the last four cycles, denying their release through the transparency portal and invoking “statistical secrecy” as its legal basis. In its...
Representatives of the Cristosal association stated at a press conference in Guatemala that the family of Ruth Eleonora López has no certainty about the health status of the lawyer, who was arrested in May and is reportedly being held in prison at the Izalco...
This Monday, May 18, marks one year since renowned activist and lawyer Ruth Eleonora López was sent to prison, the price she has had to pay to date for defying Nayib Bukele’s government. According to Cristosal, the human rights organization where she worked,...
GENEVA – UN experts* expressed deep concern today over lawyer and human rights defender Ruth Eleonora López Alfaro reaching one year in pretrial detention in El Salvador. “The mere passage of time, without the trial beginning, weakens the presumption that...
San Salvador (EFE).- Salvadoran lawyer Ruth López, a critic of President Nayib Bukele’s government, marks one year “kidnapped” by the Salvadoran state on Monday, according to her family, who say she “remains completely incommunicado” in a...
Jesuit Father Miquel Cortés Bofffil, rector of Guatemala’s Universidad Rafael Landívar (URL), celebrated a Mass on Monday to pray for the release of Ruth López, a lawyer and head of the anti-corruption unit at the organization Cristosal. López was arrested one...
