2024-02-05 18:00:37
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Given the self-proclaimed re-election of President Nayib Bukele, in the absence of firm official data – in electoral elections marked by an extensive military deployment, twenty-two consecutive months of suspension of various civil rights in El Salvador, and serious accusations from various sectors of the society on independence and compliance with the mandate of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal—, Ana Piquer, director for the Americas of Amnesty International, said:
““The international community must remain vigilant and use all resources and mechanisms at its disposal to stop and reverse the abuses and state violence that put El Salvador’s human rights situation at risk.”
“We are deeply concerned about the deterioration in respect and protection of human rights under the government of Nayib Bukele and the likelihood that this trend will be consolidated during his second term. In the last five years we have observed the serious crisis caused by a government model that promoted massive human rights violations and the evasion of accountability mechanisms, both nationally and internationally.”
“His government management has also been characterized by the concealment and manipulation of public information, the promotion of actions aimed at undermining civic space, the militarization of public security and arbitrary arrests and mass incarceration as the only strategies to combat violence in the country, disproportionately affecting people in poverty.”
“It is imperative that the instrumentalization of the criminal process and the de facto establishment of a policy of torture in the penitentiary system are not perpetuated, causing an increase in the already alarming numbers of violations of due process, deaths in State custody and the precariousness of the situation of people deprived of liberty. If the course is not corrected, we will be on the verge of the emergence of a new generation of victims at the hands of the State.”
“We have already seen in the region the serious consequences of the lack of coordinated, timely and forceful action by the international community against these repressive models, not only in El Salvador, but throughout the region. For this reason, a robust international reaction becomes essential, at the height of the human rights crisis that is developing and deepening.”
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