School supply providers fear significant losses due to non-payment and possible contract cancellations after the central government announced a plan for the manufacturing of uniforms and school shoes within correctional facilities. “We have been working in our...
Fidel Antonio Zavala was arrested in February 2022 for an alleged fraud that he ultimately proved he did not commit. However, his time in prison allowed him to witness abuses that, according to him, prison guards committed daily against inmates, both common criminals...
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...
