Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in ...

“We're living through a moment where history is repeating itself," said Ingrid Escobar, leader of the human rights legal ...

Critics of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele are facing growing risks. Just last week, Cristosal, the country’s leading human rights organization, sent its staff abroad due to what it described as ...

Roughly 8,000 organizations operate in El Salvador, though not all are registered with the Ministry of Governance. Recently, ...

The influential NGO Cristosal has shut down its operations in El Salvador, citing escalating repression under President Nayib Bukele ...

El Salvador's most prominent human rights group says it's been forced into exile, citing threats and harassment from the ...

A leading rights group investigating corruption in El Salvador said Thursday it had been forced into exile due to "escalating ...

That same month, authorities arrested Ruth López, a prominent anti-corruption lawyer with the human rights organization Cristosal, and sent her to pretrial detention in a case declared under seal.

In recent weeks four other Bukele critics have been detained in the Central American nation, including fellow lawyer Ruth Lopez, head of an anti-corruption unit of human rights NGO Cristosal.

Her NGO Cristosal helps families of Salvadorans caught up in Bukele’s crackdown on gangs, as well as more than 250 Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration, which paid El Salvador to ...