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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

A new law, championed by President Nayib Bukele, is seen by advocates as an effort to stifle dissent in El Salvador.

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 ...

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.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador arrested an anticorruption ... Ruth Eleonora López’s organization, Cristosal, condemned the arrest Monday, which it described as a “short-term ...