El Salvador News News El Salvador » Government: El Salvador to apply life sentences to minors for serious crimes
By Gerardo Arbaiza SAN SALVADOR, April 15 (Reuters) - Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has enacted legal reforms allowing life imprisonment for minors as young as 12 convicted of homicide, terrorism, ...
News El Salvador » Government: El Salvador publishes law allowing life sentences for minors as young as 12
The new sentencing measure comes as President Nayib Bukele oversees a four-year-long state of emergency against crime.
News El Salvador » Government: El Salvador's Bukele signs reforms allowing life prison sentences for people as young as 12
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday signed into law constitutional reforms to permit life prison sentences for people as young as 12, a contentious reform that follows other heavy-handed ...
News El Salvador » Government: In El Salvador's mass trials, 'the innocent pay for the guilty'
Wearing white uniforms, their heads shaved, rows of bewildered-looking men are beamed by video link from prisons across El Salvador into a courtroom conducting a mass trial of alleged gang ...
News El Salvador » Government: When El Salvador’s Prisoners Go Free, She’s There to Pick Them Up
Sugey Amaya’s brother was detained in El Salvador’s mass arrest campaign four years ago. She has devoted her life to helping prisoners like him.
News El Salvador » Government: El Salvador's Bukele holding dozens of political prisoners: rights group
The government of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, known for a harsh crackdown on street gangs and dissent, is holding dozens of political prisoners, a rights group charged Thursday. Such ...
News El Salvador » Government: El Salvador forcibly disappearing nationals deported from the US, rights group says
March 16 (Reuters) - El Salvador has subjected some nationals deported from the U.S. to enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention without revealing their whereabouts or bringing them before a ...
News El Salvador » Government: El Salvador Partners with Simple Proof to Timestamp Government Documents on Bitcoin Blockchain
Simple Proof, the bitcoin-based document timestamping company, recently announced official partnerships with El Salvador’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Environment to protect government ...
News El Salvador » Government: El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law: Understanding alternatives to government intervention
Last year El Salvador dominated headlines as the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. Now, it’s time to promote mainstream adoption from the ground up. These arguments, while for and ...