Representatives Gregory Meeks (D-NY-05), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, along with Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Ranking Member of...
UN experts warned on Wednesday that El Salvador is misusing Interpol law enforcement mechanisms to further its political agenda by issuing red notices against two Salvadoran human rights defenders in exile. The experts say that the charges and red notices against...
Accused of embezzlement or misappropriation of state funds, human rights defense attorney Ruth López was arrested on the night of May 18 under circumstances her husband, Louis Benavides, describes as unusual. Shortly after the detention, the Office of the Attorney...
The Hidden Toll Independent databases, assembled from family reports and forensic analyses, expose a landscape of systemic abuses and glaring opacity. Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Legal Humanitarian Aid): Has documented more than 430 deaths under state custody and...
José Ángel Pérez began his service to the residents of the El Bosque Cooperative in La Libertad, El Salvador, 25 years ago. His humble home is located outside the boundaries of the land allocated to cooperative members during the agrarian reform, and thus he was not a...
Description of the situation: The Observatory has received information regarding the arbitrary detention and judicial harassment of pastor and community leader Mr. José Ángel Pérez Godínez and lawyer and environmentalist Mr. Alejandro Antonio Henríquez Flores, both of...
