[1/2] El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks during a ceremony to lay the first stone of a new public hospital, in San Salvador, El Salvador June 15, 2023.
El Salvador has been under a state of emergency for 16 months, sparking the arrest of over 71,900 alleged gang members.
Opposition politicians and rights groups say group trials risk depriving detainees of their right to due process and their individual presumption of innocence.
On July 14 at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, rights organizations denounced the deaths of 174 people in state custody and over 6,400 documented human rights abuses during the state of emergency.
Reporting by Nelson Renteria in San Salvador; writing by Sarah Kinosian; Editing by Matthew LewisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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