On Wednesday, March 26th, 11 young community leaders, including 2 Sister City scholarship students – Geovanni and Emerson – were sentenced to 4 years in prison for “illicit organization,” which is another way of accusing them of being gang members. While Geovany and Emerson where well known within Sister Cities and other international organizations because of […]
January 29th, 2013 On January 28th, 60 members of the Movement of Popular Resistance (MPR-12), international solidarity organizations and residents of the urban communities Santa Cecilia and El Progreso 3 gathered in front of the Specialized Chamber of Organized Crime more than month after the raid on Santa Ceclia and El Progreso 3 that resulted […]
On November 17th, the National Congress in Honduras passed its very own Anti-Terrorism Law. The new legislation, called the Alvarez Law, was presented to Congress by Oscar Alvarez, Minister of Security under Pepe Lobo Sosa, leader of the coup regime. Alvarez is the nephew of General Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, leader of the so-called 316 Battalion […]
September 20th: COMMITTEE OF FAMILY MEMBERS OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN EL SALVADOR TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC OPINION WE DENOUNCE: The stubborn, arbitrary and unjust attitude of the government of the Salvadoran State, against our family members captured last July 2nd in Suchitoto. President Elias Antonio Saca and his Attorney General, upon their inability […]
Public Disorder Reforms Passed amidst much Debate August 18, 2007 Amidst politically polarized and often heated debate, the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly passed a reform to Article 348 of the Penal Code on Thursday, increasing jail time for public disorder for up to 8 years. Likewise, the Assembly approved reforms to Article 294 of the Penal […]
Statement of the U.S.- El Salvador Sister Cities Network regarding the arrest and imprisonment of four member of CRIPDES and nine community members in the Department of Cuscatlán on July 2, 2007 July 14, 2007 U.S. – El Salvador Sister Cities represents twenty two communities and organizations in the United States which have sistering relationships […]
We learned late Wednesday night that the 13 people arrested last Monday, July 2, including CRIPDES leaders and community members, are now being charged with “Aggravated Damages, Acts of Terrorism and Injuring a Police Officer.” They will be tried under the new Anti-Terrorism Law, (read the specifics here) created by the Salvadoran government and President […]
CRIPDES LEADERS STILL BEING HELD IN JAIL, DETAILS ON REPRESSION OF SUCHITOTO PROTEST We want to share more information on the violent and arbitrary arrest and detention of CRIPDES leaders travelling to a demonstration this morning, and details of repression against protesters in the municipality of Suchitoto. The CRIPDES leaders arrested were taken […]
By Jesse Kates-Chinoy Introduction: October, 2006: The Salvadoran Legislative Assembly approves decree #108, the “Special Law Against Acts of Terrorism.” The law is made public and applicable on November 16, 2006. The law re-writes several articles of the Salvadoran Penal Code, and creates several new categories of felonies. Most all of the acts that […]