On September 2, 2025, Rudy Joya and Ivania Cruz, Salvadoran attorneys and spokespersons for the Human and Community Rights... Read more >>
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September 25, 2025
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September 11, 2025
On September 3, 2025, around 50 members of the Movement of Victims of the Regime (MOVIR), including mothers, daughters, and grandmothers, were temporarily detained by the National Civil Police (PNC) while attempting to approach the cynically-named First Global Human Rights Summit. Read more >>
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On the evening of Friday, July 31, ahead of a national weeklong holiday, El Salvador's Legislative Assembly, controlled by Nayib Bukele's New Ideas party approved and ratified constitutional reforms, including to allow indefinite reelection.
August 8, 2025
On the night of July 31, Nayib Buckle’s Nuevas Ideas party rushed the approval of a series of alarming reforms to the Salvadoran... Read more >>
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Families of victims of the State of Exception protest against Decree 803 outside of El Salvador's Legislative Assembly on June 25, 2025. Photo: Foro Nacional de Salud (via Facebook).
August 5, 2025
Approved in July 2023, Decree 803 facilitates mass trials and the prolonged pre-trial imprisonment of thousands of victims arbitrarily arrested under Nayib Bukele's State of Exception. Read more >>
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Community members gather outside courthouse on first day of the trial with signs: "We live here, we resist here! For the freedom of the Community leaders" Photo: Comunidad Santa Marta Facebook
July 31, 2025
After multiple postponements, a worrisome trial began in El Salvador on July 29: a re-trial of the Santa Marta 5, a group of well... Read more >>
"I am a CISPES supporter because continuing to fight for social justice and a more people-centered country means continuing the dream and sacrifice of thousands of my fellow Salvadorans who died for that vision.” - Padre Carlos, New York City