US EditionMS-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 42 murders and 42 disappearances amid a crackdown that detained over 90,000 people since March 2022, officials 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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www.diariolibre.comEl Salvador’s justice, where President Nayib Bukele maintains a “war” against the gangs, sentenced dozens of members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) to several centuries in prison, including one to more than a thousand years of imprisonment, the Public Prosecutor’s Office reported this Sunday. Since March 2022, Bukele has faced gangs under an emergency regime that allows arrests without a warrant. More than 90,000 people have been arrested and s…
El Salvador sentenced a total of 248 alleged gang members MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha) to hundreds of years for alleged extortion, murder, organized crime and drug trafficking. One was sentenced to 1,000 years in prison. Since March 2022, President Nayib Bukele has been facing gangs under an emergency regime that allows arrests without a warrant. More than 90,000 people have been arrested and some 8,000 have been released for being innocent, accordi…
The Salvadoran Public Prosecutor's Office announced that 248 members of the organization had received "exemplary sentences" for 43 homicides and 42 disappearances of persons.
In El Salvador, a court has imposed prison sentences of several hundred years on members of the criminal gang "Mara Salvatrucha".
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