A prominent human rights lawyer known for defending immigrants deported amid United States President Donald Trump’s hardline anti-immigration policies has been arrested in El Salvador.

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This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 22 May 2025. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is extremely concerned about the serious deterioration of press freedom in El Salvador, which ...

(Washington, DC) – Authorities in El Salvador have arrested the prominent human rights lawyer Ruth Eleonora López, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 18, 2025, at 11 p.m., Salvadoran police ...

El Salvador’s National Civil Police have arrested Ruth Eleonora López, a renowned human rights and anti-corruption attorney who has become one of the nation’s most prominent critics of ...

The man was removed to El Salvador in mid-March. A 20-year-old Venezuelan man seeking a return to the United States after being sent to El Salvador won a legal victory over President Donald Trump ...

By Alan Feuer The court’s pause on a judge’s order came a day before the Trump administration was supposed to outline how to allow nearly 140 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador to challenge ...

El Salvador is a small Central American country bordered by Honduras, Guatemala and the Pacific Ocean. In September 2021, El Salvador made a significant move in the crypto world when it became the ...

Human rights groups, politicians and experts have sharply criticised a law approved by El Salvador’s Congress as a censorship tool, designed to silence and criminalise dissent by nongovernmental ...

(Washington, DC) – El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has approved a far-reaching “Foreign Agents” law that grants the government of President Nayib Bukele broad powers to monitor ...

Mr. Chicas, a former president of El Salvador’s supreme electoral tribunal who also served as a press secretary to former President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, was arrested in February on charges ...

A Maryland congressman has returned to the U.S. from El Salvador having failed in his attempt to meet deported illegal migrant and suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Rep.