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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights called on the government of El Salvador to protect the three Salvadoran men deported. United States of America A ruling published on Tuesday said he has been held without the ability to communicate with his lawyers or relatives since his arrival.
The Salvadoran government said in the case that 21-year-old William Alexander Martínez Ruano and 41-year-old José Osmín Santos Robles were being held in jail. Santa Ana and a third, 22-year-old Brandon Vladimir Cigarán Cruz, who the government said was an active member. Mara Salvatrucha The gang had been housed in the country’s new gang jail since March.
This has been a generalized problem for the nearly 90,000 people arrested under emergency powers given to the President Nayib Bukele in March 2022, to fight the country’s powerful street gangs.
Relatives and a lawyer filed habeas corpus petitions in El Salvador on behalf of the men, and the non-governmental Alliance for Human Rights and Democracy requested protective measures from the Human Rights Commission.
The commission, which is a branch of the regional Organization of American States, said it had decided to accept the request because of the “serious risk to their rights to life and personal well-being.” The Commission provides such protection in cases of preventing irreparable harm.
El Salvador responded to the Commission regarding the status of the men, but the Commission stated that the Government did not deny that the men were being held in secret despite a specific request to provide information regarding the possibility of meeting with their relatives and lawyers. The country was supposed to follow the commission’s instructions and report back, but El Salvador gave no indication of being willing to bow to the demands.
The Commission noted that it had granted protective measures in September to two Salvadoran lawyers, Ruth Lopez and Enrique Anaya, critics of the government, who were arrested and held incommunicado.
Jaime Magaña, a lawyer with the Wings for Freedom Movement, who is not representing any of those arrested, said people detained under the state of emergency in El Salvador typically do not have contact with relatives or their lawyers. “This is something (the commission) has been saying since the beginning of the emergency,” which began in March 2022, he said.
The government of El Salvador told the Commission that it should avoid being used by people with criminal histories.
Earlier this year, the Trump administration deported more than 250 Venezuelans to El Salvador for incarceration, accused of belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang. In July, he was released to Venezuela in exchange for the release of 10 Americans held by Venezuela.