On 29 October 2025, a hearing was held on their case, during which the defence requested alternative measures for Alejandro and José Ángel after presenting evidence of their ties to the community. The court rejected the measures, and they remain in pre-trial...
In every photograph of Alejandro, a light endures that refuses to dim. A tender, warm smile, brimming with humanity, persists even after months of confinement. Those expressions speak of a part of him convinced that he has done what is right: defending life, the land,...
Osiel Guevara was released nearly a year ago, on November 27, 2024, after serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence at the Juvenile Detention Center in Ilobasco. His father was notified to come pick him up, but half an hour after regaining his freedom, agents of the...
Mary Lawlor, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, denounced on Tuesday that El Salvador’s criminal justice system is being used to “silence” activists and lamented that a court refused to grant conditional release to...
The Procuraduría para la Defensa de Derechos Humanos (Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman, PDDH) has placed under seal information related to expenditures for the first Cumbre Global sobre Derechos Humanos (Global Summit on Human Rights), an event organized by this...
The Salvadoran government, through the Ministerio de Hacienda, sent to the Asamblea Legislativa a request to authorize new borrowing of $344 million, which would be used to cover the State’s general obligations or for liability management, that is, to service debt....
