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NATIONAL CIVIL POLICE OF EL SALVADOR
MADRID, 12 (EUROPA PRESS)
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has highlighted that there are already more than 12,000 “terrorist” gang members detained in the 21 days of the campaign once morest criminal groups launched by the Salvadoran authorities and highly questioned by NGOs and human rights defenders. .
“More than 12,000 terrorists captured in just 21 days. We continue… #GuerraContraGangs”, Bukele published on Twitter, citing a previous message from the National Police.
“As of 8:00 p.m. this Friday, April 15, we have captured 466 terrorists in the country. With this amount, the total arrests since the #GangWar began is 12,036. And there are still 4 hours left to close the day, ”the National Civil Police indicated in its message.
In the framework of this offensive once morest the gangs, the rights to freedom of association and assembly and the privacy of communications have been suspended, as well as various guarantees of due process, which has already generated criticism from organizations that defend Human Rights.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked the Salvadoran government to adopt “measures respectful of Human Rights” to protect the population from the “appalling violence” of the gangs, since it believes that those recently approved “violate the basic guarantees of due process and children’s rights.
