At least 160 people, mostly young people, have died in El Salvador from detention of state security agents during a controversial state of emergency measure imposed by President Naib Bukele’s government to “fight” the gangs.

This is reported by a humanitarian organization. crystal in a recent report.

The document states that they identified death patterns from torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. According to him, corpses were found with lacerations, bruises, indicating beatings, wounds with sharp or blunt objects, strangulation, hanging and other signs of torture.

Government authorities have not yet made a decision on the Cristosal report and They also neither confirmed nor denied these deaths.

Members of the Movement of Victims of the Regime (Movir) requested this Monday from the authorities of the Institute of Forensic Medicine (IML) an official report on death of prisoners employees of state security bodies in connection with the implementation of the event of the state of emergency.

Humanitarian organizations registered until at least mid-March 5082 “direct victims” of human rights violations, mainly due to arbitrary detentions in the context of the emergency measure.

Movir representatives accompanied by several relatives people detained “arbitrarily”arrived at the IML headquarters in San Salvador to submit a document with their request.

They asked that “exact number” of dead people and their names.

“There are many people who They do not know the whereabouts of his family.We cannot continue this negligence in this country, we need institutions to respond,” said Ivania Cruz of the Committee of Relatives of Political Prisoners of El Salvador, who also accompanied Movir.