Amnesty International (AI) warned on Tuesday that violence by the Salvadoran stateunder the state of emergency in force since March 2022 and the “alarming regression” in the protection of human rights, “gradually replaces” those who carried out gangs in poor communities.

AI presented a report in San Salvador in which the government Naib Bukeleis now a candidate for immediate re-election, limit and violate “fundamental rights”including the right to life and the prohibition of torture.”

“What we are seeing in El Salvador is tragic history repeating itselfa) state violence is gradually replacing gang violence, leaving the same vulnerable communities trapped in an endless cycle of abuse and hopelessness,” AI Americas Director Ana Picker said in a statement.

He added that “These cases are not isolated, but it is part of a systematic and widespread abuse which primarily affects“marginalized and impoverished communities.”

Since March 2022, El Salvador has been in a state of emergency. suspends constitutional guarantees following an escalation of murders attributed to gangs, and this has left at least 73,800 arrests.

AI’s report, “Behind the Veil of Popularity: Human Rights Repression and Settlement in El Salvador,” is based on “in three investigative missions and 83 interviews” He also documents “the establishment of a context marked by deepening punitive and repressive approach in matters of public safety.”

It also notes “the adoption of a legal framework that compromises due process; systematic use of torture and other types of ill-treatment of persons deprived of liberty in correctional institutions.”

And he condemns “the adoption of a number of government measures that limit civic space” and that “They attack freedom of expression and association“, such as “persecution of the journalistic profession” and “application excessive control over the media and civil society organizations.

In June 2022, Amnesty International warned that Bukele was plunging the country into “human rights crisis after three years of rule.”

In the context of the emergency regime, AI noted that humanitarian organizations have documented 3.27 cases of enforced disappearances, approximately 102 thousand people are deprived of their libertysituation of prison overcrowding by 236% and more than 190 deaths in custody states.

They add up more than 5 thousand “direct victims”most of whom are young and who would be subject to arbitrary detention by security forces.

(EFE)