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El Salvador: Bukele signs reforms allowing life prison sentences for people as young as 12
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele signed into law constitutional reforms to permit life prison sentences for people as young as 12, a contentious reform that follows other heavy-handed measures pushed through by the populist leader.
Source: AP News (16/04/2026)