Children ‘tortured, abused’ in El Salvador’s prisons
More than 3,000 minors, many with ‘no apparent connection to gangs’, have been arbitrarily arrested, Human Rights Watch says. The...
Al Jazeera
Jul 19, 2024
At least 261 people died in El Salvador's prisons
The human rights organization Cristosal says at least 261 people have died in prisons in El Salvador during President Nayib Bukele’s 2...
Washington Post
Jul 16, 2024
El Salvador Holds Mass Trials For Thousands Jailed
By Nelson Renteria Police officers and soldiers escort a young man to a detention centre, in San Salvador, El Salvador May 2, 2022....
Genocide Watch
Jul 28, 2023
At least 153 people arrested have died in Salvadoran prisons
May 29, 2023 FILE - In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, inmates identified by authorities as gang members...
Associated Press
Jun 2, 2023
OAS panel urges El Salvador to restore suspended rights
A soldier checks the identification of youths on the main street of La Campanera neighborhood in Soyapango, El Salvador, Sunday, March 5,...
Associated Press
Apr 13, 2023
El Salvador extends emergency powers in gang crackdown
Measures enjoy widespread support, but rights groups say they have led to arbitrary arrests and prison overcrowding. El Salvador's gang...
Al Jazeera
Mar 17, 2023
El Salvador: Leaked Database Points to Large-Scale Abuses
Mass Due Process Violations, Overcrowding, Poor Prospects for Justice People arrested by police wait in zip tie handcuffs in the back of...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 1, 2023
Human rights groups concerned about surveillance in El Salvador
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks during a deployment ceremony for the Territorial Control plan and army officers' graduation...
Reuters
Jan 31, 2022
El Salvador's populist leader is defiant
5 July, 2021 | By Christopher Sherman In the narrow, gang-controlled alleys of the Las Palmas neighborhood, struggling Salvadorans are...
Associated Press
Jul 4, 2021
Victims renew calls for justice as El Mozote trial moves ahead
Recent hearings reveal new details about 1981 massacre of civilians in northeast El Salvador during country’s civil war. By Anna-Cat...
Al Jazeera
May 5, 2021
Timestream: El Salvador's Civil War and Genocide
Genocide Watch staff have published the seventeenth Timestream in a series of critical genocides in the world. This Timestream covers...
Genocide Watch
Apr 16, 2021
Underreported and Unpunished, Femicides in El Salvador Continue
Originally published March 5, 2021 In one of the most dangerous Latin American countries to be a woman, lockdown measures exposed...
