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...
Peter Certo Who of us has the right to live without fear? This is the question human rights lawyer Ruth Lopez has asked fearlessly in El Salvador — the country of my birth — for decades. It’s a question we all need to ask ourselves in the United States as well. For...
The Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) and the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) stated that they do not have detailed statistical records on arrests, releases, and the judicial status of proceedings linked to the state of exception. Both entities claimed that the...
Written By Victoria Cojab On April 21, El Salvador began its largest mass trial so far, for 486 inmates accused of being members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang (MS-13). The transnational criminal organization is allegedly responsible for more than 47,000 crimes,...
