El Salvador’s Congress passed yet another extension suspending some constitutional rights in the Central American country’s year-long fight against gangs. | Reuters
FILE PHOTO: Gang members wait to be taken to their cell after 2,000 gang members were transferred to the Terrorism Confinement Center, according to El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in this handout distributed to Reuters on March 15, 2023. Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Handout via REUTERS
SAN SALVADOR — El Salvador’s Congress passed yet another extension suspending some constitutional rights in the Central American country’s year-long fight against gangs late Wednesday. The emergency powers temporarily allow arrests without warrants, government access to private communications and detentions without the right to a lawyer.It has been extended every month since last March, after a streak of murders blamed on gangs shook the country.
The state of emergency, which has seen over 65,000 alleged gang members captured, is widely popular among Salvadorans but has been criticized by human rights groups alleging arbitrary arrests, torture and deaths of prisoners in custody.
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