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Venezuelans in El Salvador prison plead for freedom in video
Venezuelans held in a high-security prison in El Salvador shouted “freedom” and used a hand signal for help in a video ...
El Salvador Arrests and Disappears Prominent Human Rights Attorney
Amnesty International and other advocacy groups have called for the immediate release of Ruth López, whose whereabouts are ...
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Shipped to El Salvador: An Austin Immigration Lawyer on Her Teen Client’s Forced ‘Disappearance’
Due process hasn’t been protected. The process that is set in place in this country that is the basis and foundation of our ...
Prominent Anti-Corruption Lawyer Is Arrested in El Salvador
Ruth López was detained Sunday in what rights groups say represents a ‘dangerous escalation’ in President Nayib Bukele’s ...
Judge orders government to report steps it's taken to facilitate Venezuelan man's return to US
A judge has ordered the Trump administration to report "the steps they have taken" to facilitate the return of a deported ...
How a Salvadoran prison became a political human zoo
The demeaning spectacle of the human zoo comes to mind as one U.S. official after another has traveled to El Salvador for ...
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Opinion: Treatment of prisoners sent to El Salvador is cruel and unusual punishment
The Trump administration believes cruelty in the treatment of immigrants will be a deterrent to others, but it is cruel and ...
What El Salvador’s Bukele, a hero for the American right, isn’t showing the world
El Salvador's Nayib Bukele is a hero of the American right and portrays himself as a hip, innovative disrupter-in-chief ...