New law grants broad powers to government to curtail operations of nonprofits as part of escalating wave of repression

Family members, human rights defenders call for release to house arrest in light of life-threatening medical conditions

On May 30 and 31, 2024, police in El Salvador arrested ten members of the National Alliance for a Peaceful El Salvador (Alianza Nacional El Salvador en Paz), a coalition of former FMLN revolutionary fighters and former military soldiers that came together in 2021 to protest threats to democracy and human rights under the government of Nayib Bukele.

Bukele regime accelerates crackdown on dissent

As Nayib Bukele completes the first year of his unconstitutional second presidential term, political persecution of human rights defenders intensifies in El Salvador.

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