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Representatives of six human rights organizations This Thursday they demanded the lifting of the state of emergency in El SalvadorTo thousands of complaints of alleged human rights violations
Representatives of six human rights organizations This Thursday they demanded the lifting of the state of emergency in El SalvadorTo thousands of complaints of alleged human rights violations and more than 240 deaths who are registered in the country’s prisons under the custody of state representatives.
Between March 27, 2022, when the anti-gang measure approved by the Legislative Assembly at the request of President Nayib Bukele’s government began, and March 15 of this year, organizations registered 6,305 complaints of human rights violations with 16,289 events or consequences.
The data was published this Thursday and is part of the report presented for the second year of the implementation of the exemption measure, which today became the government’s only and main security measure.
The report was prepared by Cristosal, the Social Service of the Passionists, the Institute of Human Rights of the Central American University (Iduca), the Salvadoran Network of Human Rights Defenders, the Amate Organization and the Foundation for Research on the Application of Rights (Fespad). .
Iduka director Gabriela Santos noted that An exceptional regime is “an unstable bubble that gives us a sense of security for a while, but deep down, because of its immediate and repressive nature, it goes no further.”
Natalie Paz of the Salvadoran Network of Women Defenders said that The exclusion regime “can be used or is already being used” to “criminalize” the activities of human rights defenders, journalists and public leaders.
He noted that documented at least 34 cases of arrests of human rights defenders from different sectors which includes environmentalists, trade unionists, community leaders and LGTBIQ+ rights advocates.
The takeover of community leadership is troubling because it entails the dismantling of the entire community organization.
He added that of the documented cases, some 23 correspond to women human rights defenders.
Rina Monti from Cristosal noted that two years after the measure was adopted “Criminalization of youth continues and is increasing.”
“We see with great concern the criminalization of young people in particularly poor and stigmatized sectors, making them a favorite target for arrest,” he said.
Monty pointed out that More than 50% of the detainees are young people between 19 and 30 years old.and warned about the growth captures of teenagers from 13 to 18 years old.
He noted that as organizations they had figured out 203 reports of juvenile arrests.
According to official data, they 79,184 people were captured during the emergency regime, a measure that was applied for two years and was dubbed by Bukele as “war on gangs”.
According to NGOs, in There will be approximately 109,519 people in prisons in El Salvador deprived of liberty, between those detained before the introduction of the state of emergency and those detained within the framework of this measure.
Based on these data, the rate of people detained per 100,000 residents of organizations is 1,728, “the highest percentage of people imprisoned in the world”said Veronica Reyna of the Passionist Social Services.
He said that in percentage terms this means that at least 1.73% of the total population are in custody and detailed that about 12,500 detainees are in the Terrorist Detention Center (Sekot) and 97,019 in other prisons in the country, which represents 335% prison overcrowding.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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