A rights report says the government of El Salvador has arrested 3,319 underage suspects and sentenced 579 during the harsh 2 1/2 year-old crackdown on street gangs.
Say goodbye to high restaurant bills — get a $200 gift card for only $35FILE - A mega-prison known as Detention Center Against Terrorism stands in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 5, 2023. On Wednesday, July 10, 2024, Cristobal, an NGO, reported it had documented the deaths of 261 people, four of them children, who were in Salvadoran state custody, after being detained during the state of exception in force since March 2022.
Of the those convicted, the report claims authorities in many cases coerced the minors into “making false confessions to crimes through a combination of abusive plea deals and sometimes mistreatment or torture.” Earlier this month, the human rights organization Cristosal said at least 261 people have died in prisons in El Salvador during theoriginally declared in 2022 and still in effect, President Nayib Bukele’s government has rounded up 81,110 suspected gang members in sweeps that rights groups say are often arbitrary, based on a person’s appearance or where they live. The government has had to release about 7,000 people because of a lack of evidence.
Bukele's administration has made a point of publishing videos of inmates clad only in underwear being frog-marched down stairways by guards.
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