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 ...

Rights group have condemned the move and have expressed concern that the attorney's whereabouts are still not known.

(Washington, DC) – Authorities in El Salvador have arrested the prominent human rights lawyer Ruth Eleonora López, Human ...

More than 100 civil society organisation including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World ...

Critics of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele call his "arbitrary" arrest of human rights advocate Ruth López a deepening sign ...

The Salvadoran government knew we were coming to see him. We notified their embassy in Washington, local officials, and our ...

Ruth López was detained Sunday in what rights groups say represents a ‘dangerous escalation’ in President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on dissent. The attorney general confirmed the arrest.

The undersigned international organizations condemn the detention of human rights defender Ruth López. The National Police ...

El Salvador's authorities have arrested Ruth Lopez, a key human rights lawyer, for alleged embezzlement during her tenure as a state official. Her arrest has drawn criticism from Cristosal, the ...

Ruth Eleonora López, the head of the Anti-Corruption and Justice Unit of the rights organization Cristosal, is accused of collaborating in the “theft of funds from state coffers,” the ...

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