The White House also accounts for the “arbitrary deprivation of life and other unlawful or politically motivated homicides” in El Salvador.
Courtesy | On March 27, 2022, President Nayib Bukele declared an emergency regime as part of his “fight gangs” policy.
The US Government denounced this Monday “inhumane treatment” in the prisons of El Salvador and a “worsening of the situation in the prisons” of that country.
In its 2022 annual report on Human Rights, the US State Department noted that detention conditions “worsened” during the state of emergency in force in the Central American nation, which has led to complaints of “inadequate sanitary conditions, shortage of food and physical attacks”.
“More than 52,000 people were arrested during the first six months of the state of emergency, leading to complaints of overcrowding and inhumane treatment in prisons,” says the document released on March 20.
“Numerous reports of arbitrary arrests, home invasions, unfair legal proceedings, and deaths in custody followed the declaration,” the US government states in the report.
In Section 1, a report on respect for the integrity of people, the State Department holds the Government of Nayib Bukele “or its agents” responsible, who, according to “reports”, committed arbitrary or illegal homicides, which ” to a large extent they resulted in the death of detainees while in prison during the state of emergency”.
The White House also accounts for the “arbitrary deprivation of life and other unlawful or politically motivated homicides” in El Salvador.
On March 27, 2022, President Nayib Bukele declared an emergency regime as part of his policy to “fight gangs”, which he blamed for the wave of violence following the scandalous number of 87 homicides in one weekend. .
Now, supported by the “results”, the Government wants the National Assembly to approve the extension of the controversial measure that is regarding to meet the one-year deadline. Defense Minister René Francis Merino specified last week that during the period of implementation of the emergency regime there have been 215 days with zero homicides.
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