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Report: Nayib Bukele's Gang Crackdown Fueled by Human Rights Abuses, Corruption in Salvadoran Prisons

A recent report from a Salvadoran human rights group reveals that Bukele's crackdown on gangs has reshaped the country's prison system, with officials now exploiting detainees' families for profit through extortion.

Latin Times

Experts Criticize U.S. Report On El Salvador Human Rights Situation: 'Widespread Pattern Of State Abuse'

Some experts are criticizing a report issued by the Donald Trump administration over its claims regarding El Salvador

Latin Times

Bukele Critics Face Long Exile From El Salvador Homeland

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has tightened his grip on power and made life ever-more difficult for critics -- now a growing number face the prospect of a long and painful exile.

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El Salvador's new wave of political exiles say history is repeating itself

Fear has long simmered among critics of President Nayib Bukele’s concentration of power in El Salvador

The Independent UK

El Salvador Rights Group Says Forced Out By Bukele 'Repression'

A leading rights group investigating corruption in El Salvador said Thursday it had been forced into exile due to "escalating repression" by President Nayib Bukele's administration.

International Business Times

David Vs Goliath: Inside The Legal Battle To Help Trump's Deportees In El Salvador

A small group of overstretched and outmatched lawyers is fighting for the rights of men deported by the Trump administration and held in a notorious Salvadoran prison -- a David vs.

International Business Times

El Salvador human rights lawyer demands public trial as police haul her before judge

A lawyer from a prominent human rights organization who has been an outspoken critic of some of President Nayib Bukele’s policies has demanded a public trial as police brought her before a judge

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A lawyer's prolonged detention shows how El Salvador's gang emergency extends to common crimes

El Salvador’s arrest of an anticorruption lawyer from a well-known human rights organization last month is the latest example of how the special powers given to President Nayib Bukele to battle gangs are being applied to a host of unrelated alleged crimes

The Independent UK

Salvadoran lawyer and Bukele critic Ruth López arrested

Rights group have condemned the move and have expressed concern that the attorney's whereabouts are still not known.

Euronews

Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested

Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago

The Guardian - US

El Salvador Arrests Rights Lawyer Helping Deported Migrants

Police in El Salvador have arrested a prominent human rights lawyer with an organization helping families of imprisoned Venezuelan migrants who were deported by the United States, authorities said Monday.

International Business Times

Does Nayib Bukele’s campaign against democracy give a blueprint for Trump?

El Salvador’s populist leader extols a hardline approach to crime and an assault on civil society – drawing envy from many in the Trump administration

The Guardian - US

Kerry Kennedy Claims Salvadoran Police Prevented Her From Meeting With Deported Clients

U.S. lawyer Kerry Kennedy said Salvadoran authorities prevented her from meeting with Venezuelan deportees she represents. Later, a prominent human rights organization said its offices were raided

Latin Times

‘I just ask God that he’s OK’: family of Venezuelan musician sent to El Salvador prison agonizes over his fate

Arturo Suárez Trejo was caught up in Trump’s immigration crackdown in North Carolina and sent to a notorious Salvadorian prison

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El Salvador Becoming 'Black Hole' For US Deportees, Critics Fear

Rights groups are increasingly worried that El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison is becoming a "black hole" for the United States to rid itself of expelled migrants or other unwanted people with no legal consequences.

The Conversation

Beatings, overcrowding and food deprivation: US deportees face distressing human rights conditions in El Salvador’s mega-prison

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele framed his offer to house “dangerous American criminals” and “criminals from any country” as a win-win for all.

The Independent UK

Inside the brutal mega-prison where Trump administration has wrongly sent Maryland father

Inmates are denied access to visitors and recreation inside the maximum-security prison

The Independent UK

What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants and imprisoned criminals to a mega-prison there

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Human Rights Organization Reports Deaths In El Salvador Prisons

Recent report exposes 261 deaths in El Salvador's prisons during gang crackdown, raising concerns over human rights abuses and prison conditions.

The Independent UK

At least 261 people have died in El Salvador's prisons under anti-gang crackdown, rights group says

The human rights organization Cristosal says at least 261 people have died in prisons in El Salvador during President Nayib Bukele’s 2 1/2-year-old crackdown on street gangs

WEKU

Portraits from El Salvador's nearly 2-year, sprawling crackdown on gang suspects

Salvadoran photographer Carlos Barrera takes a look at the nearly two years of human rights violations allegedly committed by the government of El Salvador during the country's state of emergency.

The Independent UK

Detainees in El Salvador's gang crackdown cite abuse during months in jail

Thousands of detainees swept up in El Salvador's gang crackdown over the past 1 1/2 years have been released from pre-trial detention

The Week

El Salvador’s controversial crackdown on gangs

Human rights groups may be raising the alarm over El Salvador’s brutal crackdown on gang violence, but the policy is winning huge support for the country’s young president both at home and abroad.

The Independent UK

Report: At least 153 people arrested under special powers have died in Salvadoran prisons

At least 153 people jailed since El Salvador instituted emergency powers in March 2022 to confront the country’s powerful street gangs have died in state custody

The Guardian - US

At least 153 died in custody in El Salvador’s gang crackdown – report

Human rights group’s 107-page report details human cost of President Nayib Bukele’s controversial ‘war on gangs’

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