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Bukele’s regime has already imprisoned over 73,000 people since March 2022. Human rights activists object that many such detentions are unjustified and involved racial or class profiling.
El Salvador sent 2,000 more suspected gang members to jail following the opening of a new prison facility.
President Nayib Bukele promised to end gang violence. It may come at the expense of human and civil rights.
Conditions inside a huge new mega-prison designed to house 40,000 alleged gang members in El Salvador will be particularly severe, according to accounts from a visiting team of AFP journalists.
A visit to Salvador's new 'mega-prison' points to severe conditions