Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Legal Humanitarian Aid, SJH) has documented 380 deaths under the custody of the Salvadoran State, three years after the Legislative Assembly (Asamblea Legislativa) first approved the state of exception on March 27, 2022. “We have...
The United States Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretaria de Seguridad de EE.UU.), Kristi Noem, recently visited El Salvador and toured the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), the mega-prison that holds 250 suspected members of a Venezuelan gang deported from the...
“Humiliation as propaganda,” “horror,” “Judge says deported individuals face possible torture, beatings, and even death in El Salvador’s mega-prison,” and other such headlines and opinion pieces from major global media outlets refer to three converging developments:...
Family members of detainees belonging to the Movement of Victims of the State of Exception (Movir) marched on the third anniversary of the state of exception’s enforcement, calling for the release of those arrested who have no ties to gangs. The state of exception was...
After analyzing the threat by the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, to “hunt down every illegal criminal migrant” and send them to prison in El Salvador, attorneys are warning of possible violations of international treaties on human rights by both...
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, spent part of Wednesday afternoon posing one question after another to X’s artificial intelligence, named Grok, and reposting the answers he found favorable. All but one: “Hey Grok, who is the most popular president in the...
