Human rights organizations, politicians and experts have sharply criticized a law approved by El Salvador's Congress this ...

El Salvador has arrested an anticorruption lawyer from one of the country’s premier human rights organizations, alleging that she participated in the embezzlement of funds when she held a government ...

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

Inside America’s Global Prison Pipeline with Noah Bullock of Cristosal and investigative journalist Nick Turse on The ...

Ruth López was detained Sunday in what rights groups say represents a ‘dangerous escalation’ in President Nayib Bukele’s ...

The corruption charges against Salvadoran rights activist Ruth López, a leading critic of President Nayib Bukele, are ...

"Ruth López collaborated in the theft of funds from state coffers," the Attorney General's Office said in its post on X.

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

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The mother of a human rights ... the head of the anti-corruption team at nongovernmental organization Cristosal. Police arrested López Sunday night alleging she ...

Authorities in El Salvador may be refocusing policies once used to attack organized crime on political opponents now.

El Salvador's Nayib Bukele is a hero of the American right and portrays himself as a hip, innovative disrupter-in-chief ...

Human rights groups have called for the immediate release of Ruth López, whose whereabouts are unknown since her arrest by police in El Salvador late Sunday.