The First Organized Crime Court ordered alternative measures to pre-trial detention for Montalvo, jailed since May of last year. His defense team had requested a review hearing in November, citing a chronic illness, but the court delayed the proceeding. On Monday,...
It is not the same to be an ordinary prisoner as to be a prisoner of conscience. A prisoner of conscience is an individual unjustly detained for peacefully exercising fundamental rights such as freedom of expression, religion, or assembly. Before someone can be...
A light aircraft loaded with nearly half a tonne of cocaine was located and seized by members of the Armed Forces and federal security units in the town of Tecomán, Colima, after it was detected entering Mexican airspace illegally from El Salvador. The Secretariat of...
Family sources told LA PRENSA GRÁFICA that on 2 July 2025 Montalvo was rushed to the Regional Hospital of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute (Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social, ISSS) in Santa Ana after vomiting blood and experiencing severe decompensation....
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Thursday rejected accusations that migrant Kilmar Ábrego—illegally deported to El Salvador by the Donald Trump Administration—endured torture inside one of the country’s mega-prisons. “The man was not tortured, nor did he lose...
In a rare account of the notorious prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration deported 261 Venezuelan and Salvadoran migrants in March, Kilmar Abrego García’s lawyers said in a court filing Wednesday that he and the others were severely beaten and forced to...
