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El Salvador under State of Exception
Summary
After a most violence days, that left 87 civilians dead, due to breakdown of secret negotiations between Salvadoran government and MS-13, one of the main gangs, the president of Central American country, Nayib Bukele, he pressured his parlament to approve an State of Exception that since march 27 of 2022.
The State of Exception lasted from march and during in 2022 and 2023, leaving more than 75,000 people detained on suspicion of belonging to a criminal group, there were dozens of deaths with sings of torture inside of the country's jail.
The State of Exception lasted from march and during in 2022 and 2023, leaving more than 75,000 people detained on suspicion of belonging to a criminal group, there were dozens of deaths with sings of torture inside of the country's jail.
The Regime lasted from March and during the rest of 2022 and 2023, leaving more than 75,000 people detained on suspicion of belonging to a criminal group, there were also dozens of deaths with signs of torture inside the country's prisons and various organizations of human rights pointed out the abuses of the government towards the citizens who were detained arbitrarily.
The most populous neighborhoods and communities were intervened by the military, controlling the mobility of civilians, violent arrests were recorded, and a crisis broke out on the outskirts of prisons due to the thousands of relatives who were looking for their detained relatives without obtaining any information from them. Their whereabouts gave rise to movements of victims of the Exception Regime that triggered protests in the streets of the country to demand the release of people who were unjustly detained and who, in many cases, spent up to more than one year in prison.
Some peoples that get out of prison was talking and telling, under anonymity, about of the torture that they suffered inside of salvadoran jail during their capture on State of Exception time.
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