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flag El Salvador’s president is accused of detaining 86 political prisoners, including an anti-corruption investigator, since the 1992 peace agreement.

flag Human rights group Cristosal accused El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele of detaining 86 political prisoners, including anti-corruption investigator Ruth Lopez, marking the first such detentions since the 1992 civil war peace agreement. flag The group, whose leaders fled to Guatemala citing persecution, said the government used criminal courts, surveillance, public shaming, and preventive incarceration to suppress dissent, with at least 245 others harassed for criticizing Bukele’s gang crackdown. flag The crackdown, under a state of emergency since 2022, has led to 91,000 arrests, about 8,000 of whom were released. flag Bukele, re-elected in 2024 with a large majority, secured indefinite re-election rights after a constitutional change by his party-controlled Congress. flag He has defended his actions, saying they prevent violence, while critics compare the situation to Nicaragua and Venezuela. flag The Salvadoran government did not respond to the report.

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