On September 3, 2025, around 50 members of the Movement of Victims of the Regime (MOVIR), including mothers, daughters, and grandmothers, were temporarily detained by the National Civil Police (PNC) while attempting to approach the cynically-named First Global Human Rights Summit.

On the night of July 31, Nayib Buckle’s Nuevas Ideas party rushed the approval of a series of alarming reforms to the Salvadoran Constitution regarding presidential elections. The constitutional amendments allow for indefinite reelection, extend the presidential term from five to six years, eliminate run-off elections, and move up the 2029 presidential elections to 2027, to coincide with the legislative and municipal elections. The reforms were approved and ratified in a single day's session, without debate and without public consultation.

Approved in July 2023, Decree 803 facilitates mass trials and the prolonged pre-trial imprisonment of thousands of victims arbitrarily arrested under Nayib Bukele's State of Exception.

After multiple postponements, a worrisome trial began in El Salvador on July 29: a re-trial of the Santa Marta 5, a group of well-known water defenders who had been instrumental in the country’s successful effort to ban mining in 2017.

On July 7, a judge in El Salvador ordered that Atilio Montalvo, a signer of the 1992 Peace Accords on behalf of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, be placed under house arrest upon discharge from the hospital following a medical emergency. The decision now lies in the hands of prison authorities to enforce the ruling.

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