By bnl editorial staff An international panel of legal experts has concluded there are reasonable grounds to believe that El Salvador's government committed crimes against humanity under a state of ...

March 10 (Reuters) - A group of international jurists on Tuesday accused Salvadoran authorities of committing crimes against humanity in a report filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human ...

Amnesty International warned on Wednesday that concerns remain over the criminalization of human rights defender Fidel Zavala in El Salvador, urging authorities to drop the unfounded criminal ...

The politician from the Central American country defends the president’s ‘strong leadership’ model and, despite criticism ...

A Cristosal report documents 245 cases of political persecution in El Salvador, showing arrests, pretrial detention and vicarious pressure on families in places like Nahuizalco.

Years of campaigning led to the release of 81 women imprisoned under the country’s strict reproductive laws, but the suspension of civil rights by President Nayib Bukele is fuelling a new wave of crim ...

Emergency legislation is being used in increasingly repressive ways to grab back land granted during the civil war, say campaigners ...

The government of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, known for a harsh crackdown on street gangs and dissent, is holding dozens of political prisoners, a rights group charged Thursday.Bukele, ...

Now it is thronged with tourists, lured by the transformation of El Salvador from one of the region’s deadliest countries to one of its safest. The turnaround began in 2022, when President Nayib ...