Tuesday, May 30, 2023

PRISON INMATES NOT TREATED KINDLY

El Salvador's prison shame: Human rights report finds at least 153 prisoners tortured, starved and killed in Salvadoran jails after country's crackdown on 'war on gangs'

 

Daily Mail

May30, 2023 

 

Human rights report finds at least 153 prisoners killed in El Salvador's jails in 'war on

 

At least 153 people who were arrested since El Salvador instituted emergency powers have died in state custody, according to a report by a human rights group. 

The special powers were introduced in March 2022 to battle powerful street gangs based in El Salvador in the President Nayib Bukele's 'war on gangs'. 

None of those who died, which included four women with the rest being men, had been convicted of a crime they were accused of at the time of their arrest, according to the report by Central American human rights group

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