During a July 20th press conference, Salvadoran human rights and labor rights organizations denounced  the scheduling of a mass trial hearing for August 25 and 26 by the Fourth Court Against Organized Crime, in which union leader Geovanni Antonio Aguirre López will be prosecuted. Aguirre has remained detained under the State of Exception since 2022, despite two court orders mandating his release.

On July 16, after several weeks of an international visibility campaign for Ruth’s release, her sister, Claudia López, told the press that she had been granted a visitation with Ruth in mid-May, during which she stated that Ruth was experiencing life-threatening health complications and demanded answers regarding the results of a biopsy.

International faith, solidarity and labor groups express “deep concern" over periods of forced disappearance

Social movement counters triumphalist narrative, points to normalization of emergency rule, deteriorating public services, rising costs

Popular movement organizations, relatives, and defense attorneys held a press conference on June 10 to demand the release of the leaders of the Alliance for a Peaceful El Salvador, who have remained imprisoned without trial since May 2024. They were arrested without warrants in the days leading up to the inauguration of Bukele's unconstitutional second term as president, under accusations of terrorism.

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