(CNN Spanish) — The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, reported this Wednesday that another 2,000 inmates were transferred to the so-called Terrorism Confinement Center, a mega-prison with a capacity for 40,000 inmates.
The Secretary of Communications of the Presidency told CNN that in this second group there are convicted prisoners and others who will face a trial by means of videoconference from the new prison.
“With this, there are already 4,000 gang members who inhabit the most criticized prison in the world,” wrote Bukele on his social networks.
Regarding the criticism, Bukele alludes to the indications of national and international organizations that maintain that this prison violates human rights.
Organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have unsuccessfully called for the repeal of the emergency regime, which was implemented with the government’s argument of an upsurge in violence that, in a single day at the end of March 2022, left 62 homicides.
The Bukele government affirms that the implementation of the emergency regime, which will be in force for one year on March 27, has allowed the capture of more than 65,000 people. And according to the National Civil Police of El Salvador, the homicide figures have been reduced, some days without any cases.
