Associated Press 1
Aug 22, 2024
NGOs start registry of disappeared persons in El Salvador
By MARCOS ALEMÁN Updated 5:41 PM CDT, August 21, 2024 FILE - People detained by national police are transported to a detention center,...
Al Jazeera
Jul 19, 2024
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...
Washington Post
Jul 16, 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...
Genocide Watch
Jul 28, 2023
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....
Associated Press 1
Jun 2, 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 1
Apr 13, 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,...
Al Jazeera
Mar 17, 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...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 1, 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...
Reuters
Jan 31, 2022
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...
Associated Press 1
Jul 4, 2021
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...
Al Jazeera
May 5, 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...
Genocide Watch
Apr 16, 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...
