El Salvador: Human Rights Lawyer Still in Jail One Year On
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This Monday, May 18, marks a year since the well-known activist and lawyer Ruth Eleonora López was sent to prison, the cost she has had to pay so far to challenge the government of Nayib Bukele. According to Cristosal, the human rights organization in which she worked, López is one of the 86 people identified as political prisoners that the organization has managed to document under the current Executive of El Salvador, which for a year has unde…
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Click to expand Image Ruth López. © El Diario de Hoy (Washington, DC) – The prominent anti-corruption lawyer Ruth López remains in pretrial detention in El Salvador with her case under judicial seal one year after her arrest, Human Rights Watch said today. Salvadoran authorities should guarantee López a prompt, open, and fair trial, lift the judicial secrecy on her case file, and allow her regular contact with her family and lawyers.López, 48, h…
The criminal proceedings against Salvadoran lawyer Ruth López, criticized by President Nayib Bukele’s government and detained for a year, are an attempt to “silence all critical voices” in El Salvador, said Monday the director of the humanitarian organization Cristosal, Noa Bullock. La entrada The case against lawyer López seeks to silence critical voices in El Salvador, alert NGO was first published in Proceso Digital.
GENEVA, [18 April 2026] – UN experts* today expressed their deep concern over the one-year mark of pretrial detention of lawyer and human rights defender Ruth Eleonora López Alfaro in El Salvador. “The mere passage of time, without the trial having begun, weakens the presumption of necessity for the detention,” the experts stated. “One year of pretrial detention, in the absence of duly demonstrated extraordinary complexity of the case or obstruc…
Justice for Ruth López: The Human Rights Crisis in El Salvador
Ruth López exposed corruption at the highest levels in El Salvador. Since May 18, 2025, she’s been imprisoned without trial or due process. Ruth López is one of El Salvador’s most respected human rights defenders. Credit: Cristosal Shortly after 11 pm on Sunday, May 18, 2025, Louis Benvanides shuffled downstairs to answer a knock on his door. Dressed in his pajamas, Louis found himself face to face with armed officers from El S…
Abraham Ábrego, director of strategic litigation for Cristosal and part of his legal team, analyzes the irregularities of the case and the repressive context in El SalvadorMain topics: El Salto RadioRead full article
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