El Salvador Begins Mass Trial for Nearly 500 Alleged MS-13 Gang Members
El Salvador has commenced a large-scale trial for approximately 486 to 500 alleged members of the notorious MS-13 gang. The defendants face charges related to tens of thousands of crimes, with potential sentences of hundreds of years in prison.
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El Salvador holds mass trial for 486 alleged members of notorious MS-13 gang
Human rights groups have warned that the collective prosecutions violate due process and block defendants from accessing legal counsel A Salvadoran court on Tuesday began a collective trial of 486 alleged gang members, in one of the biggest mass trials under president Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gang violence through controversial emergency powers. Prosecutors say the charges against alleged members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, or MS-13, span more than 47,000 crimes committed between 2012 an...
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Read full article →El Salvador holds mass trial for 486 MS-13 gang members
A Salvadoran court has begun a collective trial of 486 alleged gang members, one of the biggest mass trials under President Nayib Bukele's crackdown on gang violence through controversial emergency powers.
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Prosecutors in El Salvador opened a massive, joint trial of nearly 500 alleged members of the MS-13 gang on charges that include homicide, extortion and arms trafficking. The trial, which opened Monday in San Salvador, is the latest in a practice that has been criticized by human rights groups as an infringement on the right of the accused to defend themselves. Such trials form part of President Nayib Bukele's iron-fist approach against criminal groups in El Salvador, which has been under a stat
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El Salvador’s justice system on Monday opened a trial against some 486 people accused of belonging to the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), including several founders and leaders, in the first mass trial against the command structure of a gang. Among thousands of crimes, according to the Attorney General’s Office, the group ordered the killing of 87 […] The post El Salvador Opens Mass Trial Against Gang leaders appeared first on The Tico Times | Costa Rica News | Travel | Real Estate.
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