Over the 40 months that the state of exception has been in force, at least 425 people have died while under the custody of the Dirección General de Centros Penales (Directorate General of Penal Centers, DGCP), according to records compiled by Socorro Jurídico...
The Trump administration’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, was overseeing a deal to free several Americans and dozens of political prisoners held in Venezuela in exchange for sending home about 250 Venezuelan migrants the United States had deported to El...
Omar García Harfuch, head of the Secretaría de Seguridad y Protección Ciudadana (Security and Citizen Protection Ministry), stated that a light aircraft intercepted in the municipality of Tecomán, Colima, with 428 kilograms of cocaine on board had departed from El...
In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s unlawful transfer of hundreds of migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador, the administration claimed that it had no legal authority to bring them back to the United States. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele claimed, in...
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...
