Summary Police and soldiers in El Salvador arrested Carolina González (pseudonym), a 17-year-old student from a rural town in Sonsonate state, on July 1, 2022, without showing her a warrant. Security forces accused Carolina of collaborating with gangs. She recalls...
The state of exception imposed since March 2022 by controversial president Nayib Bukele in El Salvador has left more than 3,000 minors detained arbitrarily and subjected to trials violating due process, reveals a report published this Tuesday by human rights...
Juan Pappier, Deputy Director of the Americas Division at Human Rights Watch (HRW), lamented the statements made by State representatives at the recent public hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), where they accused civil organizations of...
The Government of Nayib Bukele once again denied, despite evidence gathered by human rights organizations, that violent deaths of people in its custody and the use of torture in Salvadoran prisons—overcrowded under the state of exception in place in the country since...
The presidential commissioner for human rights and freedom of expression, Andrés Guzmán Caballero, confirmed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, IACHR (CIDH), that as of June 25, 2024, there were a total of 107,997 people deprived of their liberty in the...
Russia’s influence in Central America is increasingly noticeable, and Nicaragua is no longer the only gateway for this country into the region. A recent publication by official media reported that among the 755 police officers graduated from the Moscow...
