Over 80,000 Salvadorans have been detained — some of whom human rights defenders maintain are innocent — since gang-busting President Nayib Bukele declared a state of emergency three years ago that allowed arrests without warrants. The government accuses...
Attorney General Rodolfo Delgado requested an amendment to Article 17 of the proposed reform to the Anti-Organized Crime Law, allowing the investigation period and the filing of charges against individuals detained under the state of exception to be extended by up to...
The State Department on Tuesday released an annual collection of reports on human rights records in nearly 200 nations, but left out language on persistent abuses in many nations that was present in prior reports. The omissions were another sign of the Trump...
The human rights situation “has deteriorated” in Brazil, but in El Salvador “there are no credible reports” that abuses are occurring. In Israel and the occupied territories, the only war crimes are perpetrated by Hamas. That is how the United States Department of...
At least 10 people with disabilities have died in the custody of the Salvadoran state while detained in prisons under the state of exception, reveals a new report from the NGO Cristosal. The report documents testimonies of human rights violations in the application of...
Berty Manuel Acevedo Parada, one of the lawyers designated by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) to prosecute human rights defender Ruth Eleonora López Alfaro for the crime of illicit enrichment, is the son of Deputy Attorney General Cándida Dolores Parada de...
