El Salvador
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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.El Salvador: 500 incarcerated people die in custody during Bukele anti-gang crackdown
A Salvadoran human rights organization says at least 500 people have died in state custody since President Nayib Bukele launched his anti-gang offensive four years ago, with the vast majority having no ties to criminal groups.El Salvador: lights on 24 hours a day and 80 incarcerated people per cell, inside Cecot, Bukele's showcase prison
El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) has become a symbol of President Nayib Bukele’s government propaganda. Folha spent two hours inside the prison complex, which houses around 20,000 incarcerated people—mostly gang members—under extreme conditions.
El Salvador: treatment of Venezuelan migrants held at U.S. request amounted to "arbitrary detention" and "torture", report argues
A report released by human rights groups determined that the treatment of more than 200 Venezuelan migrants imprisoned in El Salvador at the request of the U.S. amounted to arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance under international law.El Salvador: anguished families are losing hope as they can’t reach loved ones sent to mega-prison
Carmen Bonilla has barely slept for nearly two months, her mind filled with terrifying thoughts about what might be happening to her son, whose dream to go to the United States for a better life has turned into a waking nightmare.El Salvador: why experts fear the men who were sent to the megraprison may never make it out
Hundreds of Venezuelans who were deported to El Salvador from the United States in recent days could face long or indefinite detention in a prison system rife with human rights abuses, according to attorneys and experts on the region.El Salvador: coming face to face with prisoners in the country's mega-jail
Since the Cecot (Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism) opened on 31 January 2023, the BBC had repeatedly requested access to the mega-prison. It was finally granted two days after President Nayib Bukele claimed victory in the presidential election held on 4 February.
El Salvador: mass trials planned for those imprisoned in gang crackdown
New rules passed by El Salvador’s congress Wednesday will allow courts to try accused gang members in mass trials, in an effort to expedite tens of thousands of cases for those detained under the country’s crackdown on street gangs.
Salvador: hijos de reclusas, los más afectados después del traslado en cárcel de mujeres
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Salvador: procurador Apolonio Tobar confirma muerte de detenidos bajo régimen de excepción en el país
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Salvador: más de 400 reas fueron trasladadas de cárcel de mujeres
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Salvador: un líder pandillero condenado a más de mil años de cárcel
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Salvador: denuncian omisión en muerte de reos
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Salvador: la CIDH exige a El Salvador mejorar las condiciones de sus cárceles
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Salvador: Denuncian torturas a capturados durante régimen de excepción
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Salvador: LPG Datos | El 28.5 % de los ciudadanos conoce de alguna detención que considera injusta
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