Prosecutors in the drug trafficking trial of former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández have requested to present intercepted telephone calls between MS13 leader Alexander Mendoza, alias 'El Porky,' and other gang members. Concurrently, El Salvador has launched a mass trial for nearly 500 accused leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, related to over 37,000 crimes spanning a decade. In June 2023, a judge in Honduras ordered pre-trial detention for nine female gang members implicated in a prison massacre that resulted in 46 deaths. In El Salvador, the government's crackdown on gangs has led to the mass jailing of suspected criminals, including a mass trial for 500 gang leaders, while others are detained without trial and without access to a lawyer. Human rights concerns have been raised as citizens are reportedly detained indefinitely without legal process, facing torture, and the government has been accused of threatening critics and spying on journalists. Reports indicate that 1% of El Salvador's population has been seized in this crackdown, affecting 40,000 children.
El Salvador's dictatorial president, Nayib Bukele, has summarily detained one percent of the country's population. Their children suffer too. "Forty thousand children have seen one parent or both detained." https://t.co/VlIaMisFHN
1% of El Salvador's population seized in crackdown, children pay the consequences https://t.co/twNNYOcedg https://t.co/mtBNhurj1X
The president seized 1% of El Salvador's population. Their children pay the consequences https://t.co/u9xOL5ZXdt
The president seized 1% of El Salvador's population. Their children pay the consequences (from @AP) By @meganjanetsky https://t.co/9v8uDbmdqD
El Salvador has become a dictatorship: Citizens are whisked "off the streets and into prison indefinitely" without a reason or access to a lawyer. Inmates are "tortured." Government critics are "threatened with prosecution" and journalists are "spied on." https://t.co/JcPhwGB7IM
🇸🇻 EL SALVADOR MASS JAILING OF GANGS | SOME WITHOUT TRIAL El Salvador is putting thousands of suspected cartel criminals behind bars. 500 gang leaders will be put on a mass trial, while lower-ranking alleged gangsters will have no legal process to establish guilt. Despite… https://t.co/o9zjrFAPOW
🇭🇳 #Honduras | A judge has ordered pre-trial detention for nine female gang members accused of being responsible for a June 2023 prison massacre that left 46 inmates dead. Read more at https://t.co/2IPi7juFTA
⚠️ EL SALVADOR LAUNCHES MASS TRIAL FOR NEARLY 500 ACCUSED GANG LEADERS (Reuters) El Salvador on Thursday kicked off a mass trial to prosecute nearly 500 alleged leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha gang for more than 37,000 crimes committed over a decade, the Central American…
In a new court filing in the drug trafficking trial of former #Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández, prosecutors request to present intercepted telephone calls between fugitive #MS13 leader Alexander Mendoza, alias “El Porky," and other gang members. https://t.co/DjSVfdDU1n https://t.co/v7s1OfrPum