El Salvador

OPINION,
The El Salvador diaries: My days as a ‘terrorist’
Bukele’s forever-emergency is morphing into a perennial war on people, human rights, journalism, and reality itself.
opinion by Belen Fernandez
Published On 18 May 2022
More than 30,500 arrested in El Salvador gang crackdown
Police say 30,506 arrests carried out in less than two months since ‘state of exception’ invoked after deadly violence.
Published On 16 May 2022
El Salvador woman jailed following obstetric emergency: NGO
The woman was given a 30-year sentence for homicide over the death of an unborn child.
Published On 10 May 2022
As El Salvador’s arrest wave continues, families live in worry
Relatives of people arrested in government’s crackdown on gangs say they have little to no information about loved ones.
Published On 6 May 2022

The government has imposed a state of emergency to curb fighting between rival gangs.

Amid spike in homicides, President Nayib Bukele declared a state of emergency in March aimed at stemming gang violence.

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Measures enacted by the government have raised concerns over rights abuses with thousands arrested.

President Nayib Bukele says his gov’t is stamping out gang violence, but experts document pattern of arbitrary arrests.

The groups have asked the judiciary to declare as unconstitutional law reforms that they say limit reporting on gangs.

President Nayib Bukele says ‘war against gangs’ continues despite concerns raised by rights groups and other observers.

The country’s journalists’ association called the law a ‘clear attempt at censorship’.

With a new state of emergency, any hint of civil liberties has been suspended in ‘the world’s coolest dictatorship’.

UN says some detainees rounded up after wave of deadly violence subjected to ‘cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment’.

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