Rights group condemns El Salvador law putting children in adult prisons

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The government of President Nayib Bukele has approved a series of legal measures that allow the prison authorities of El Salvador to transfer minors to adult prisons in the Central American country, denounced on Monday the human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW). The agency warns that this measure violates international standards of juvenile justice and exposes minors to greater risks of abuse. “These legislative reforms subject child…

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Following the adoption of the new penal reform that allows children and adolescents to be transferred to adult prisons in El Salvador, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned about the abuses to which minors are exposed.The Salvadoran Congress, controlled by deputies related to President Nayib Bukele, decided that minors arrested and convicted for links to organized crime, particularly gangs, should be sent to a regular prison. ‘It’s like going to hell’…

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Rights group condemns El Salvador law putting children in adult prisons

Human Rights Watch (HRW), in a Monday release, claimed that a new El Salvador law, which transfers incarcerated children to the adult prison system, violates international juvenile justice standards. This comes amidst the conviction of more than a thousand children on allegedly tenuous charges including unlawful gang association, in which the state is accused of coercing children into pleading guilty for crimes they did not commit. There are con…

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El Salvador: Children to Be Moved to Adult Prisons

El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has approved measures that will transfer children to the country’s adult prison system, exposing them to a heightened risk of abuse and violating international juvenile justice standards, Human Rights Watch said today.

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By David Ramírez, Voices/Latin American Summary, February 25, 2025. “Children, who have already suffered aberrant abuses in juvenile detention centres, would face even more serious conditions and abuses in adult prisons. Under no circumstances should they be transferred there,” said Juanita Goebertus, director of the Division of the Americas [...] La entrada El Salvador. HRW maintains that children transferred to adult prisons will suffer “even …

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday (24) that children and adolescents arrested in El Salvador will be transferred to adult prisons, facing serious abuses under the new criminal reform approved by the country's Congress. The measure, backed by parliamentarians allied with President Nayib Bukele, requires that minors convicted of being linked to organized crime, especially gangs, serve time in ordinary prisons. According to HRW, the rulin…