Human rights organizations, politicians and experts have sharply criticized a law approved by El Salvador’s Congress this ...

Critics of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele call his "arbitrary" arrest of human rights advocate Ruth López a deepening sign ...

Since 2022, Mr. Bukele has kept in place a state of emergency that allows authorities to carry out arrests at will, sidestepping due process. Image President Nayib Bukele at the White House in April.

Ruth Eleonora López was an outspoken critic of President Nayib Bukele. López’s supporters call the charges against her part of the Bukele government’s “systematic strategy of ...

Authorities in El Salvador have arrested a prominent attorney critical of President Nayib Bukele, in a move criticized by rights groups who say it reflects an increasing trend of ...

“Warrants, if issued, would be the first here in decades to target journalists for their work, according to El Faro, ‘the most frontal state assault on press freedom in El Salvador since Bukele came ...

Police in El Salvador arrested a prominent human rights lawyer and critic of President Nayib Bukele who helps imprisoned Venezuelan migrants deported by the United States, prompting appeals on ...

López has been an outspoken critic of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. She and her organization have documented human rights abuses in El Salvador — including inhumane conditions in jails and ...

A new law, championed by President Nayib Bukele, is seen by advocates as an effort to stifle dissent in El Salvador.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The mother of a human rights lawyer arrested in El Salvador said Tuesday she was able to see and speak with her daughter more than 24 hours after her arrest and ...

Ruth Eleonora López, 47, a senior figure at the rights group Cristosal and a vocal critic of El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, a Trump ally, was detained late on Sunday. The arrest was ...