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MS-13 gang member sentenced to 1,335 years in prison, others given hundreds of years in El Salvador
El Salvador sentenced 248 MS-13 members for violent crimes including 43 homicides and 42 disappearances, with one individual receiving a 1,335-year term, authorities said.
- On Sunday, El Salvador's Attorney General's office posted that over 240 MS-13 members received long sentences, including Marvin Abel Hernandez Palacios with 1,335 years.
- Since March 2022, President Nayib Bukele's campaign under a state of emergency has allowed arrests without warrants, detaining more than 90,000 people with about 8,000 released after being found not guilty.
- Authorities say Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 caused roughly 200,000 deaths over three decades and once controlled 80% of El Salvador, extorting business owners.
- Bukele's government says the campaign reduced homicides to historically low levels, while human rights groups accuse abuses and gangs drive thousands of migrants to the United States.
- Earlier this year, the United States designated MS-13 a foreign terrorist organisation, President Trump called it `probably the meanest, worst gang in the world`, and official posts did not specify sentencing dates or trial details, while the Attorney General's office posted the convictions on social media.
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El Salvador's justice system, where President Nayib Bukele declared "war" on gangs, has sentenced dozens of members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) to several centuries in prison.Since March 2022, President Bukele has adopted an exception regime that allows arrests without warrants. More than 90,000 people have been arrested and about 8,000 have subsequently been released after being declared innocent, according to official sources.The Salvadora…
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A gang member from the Mara Salvatrucha gang has been sentenced to more than 1,300 years in prison.
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