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El Salvador's prison shame: Human rights report finds at least 153 prisoners tortured, starved and killed in Salvadoran jails after country's crackdown on 'war on gangs'
Daily Mail ^ | May 30, 2023 | Oliver Price

Posted on 05/30/2023 10:06:41 PM PDT by Angelino97

At least 153 people who were arrested since El Salvador instituted emergency powers have died in state custody, according to a report by a human rights group.

The special powers were introduced in March 2022 to battle powerful street gangs based in El Salvador in the President Nayib Bukele's 'war on gangs'.

None of those who died, which included four women with the rest being men, had been convicted of a crime they were accused of at the time of their arrest, according to the report by Central American human rights group Cristosal.

The report by the NGO said that 29 of the deaths were confirmed as violent and 46 more were thought to be suspicious.

The bodies of most of these 75 people showed signs of torture, beatings or strangulations, the report said. Other deaths which showed signs of injury were classified as having an 'undetermined' or 'natural' cause of death.

Some of the deaths showed signs they resulted from deliberate denial of medical assistance, medicine and food, including some deaths resulting from malnutrition.

The report says the deaths reveal punitive policies carried out by guards and prison officials, stating that such actions would have required authorisation and backing by the top-level security officials.

The government has not provided an official count of deaths among the incarcerated.

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To: FLT-bird

Right, never understood the new Gascon type mentality. Where it’s better to let an entire regions of thousands and thousands of people live in fear than to let a small % of criminals suffer.

I think it’s part of a plan to bring us down. Cloward- Piven style.


21 posted on 05/31/2023 3:04:30 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: FLT-bird

How many are sitting in that crowded jail? There’s what? A thirty year supply? The jail needs to be emptied for those who might have half an ounce of compassion for their fellow man.


22 posted on 05/31/2023 4:29:33 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: Angelino97

How many people did those shitty humans known as “prisoners” torture, rape and murder?
No matter what they are “suffering”, it will never be enough for what they have done.


23 posted on 05/31/2023 4:35:22 AM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: himno hero
How many are sitting in that crowded jail? There’s what? A thirty year supply? The jail needs to be emptied for those who might have half an ounce of compassion for their fellow man.

Given these are gangbangers and murderers and given that El Salvador has been plagued by sky high rates of crime and murder for a few decades now, my compassion for my fellow man starts and ends with the innocent people victimized by these thugs. Pack 'em in. I don't give a damn about them.

24 posted on 05/31/2023 4:56:31 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Angelino97

Tortured prisoners? What did (WOULD) those same people do on the outside?


25 posted on 05/31/2023 5:00:31 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: Angelino97

If they have the tattoos...well, they chose that line of work.


26 posted on 05/31/2023 5:43:28 AM PDT by BobL
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To: FLT-bird

Don’t waste the real estate, don’t waste the food on terminal hard core criminals. Do like they’d do, dig a trench, fill it, groom the surface and dig a new trench.


27 posted on 05/31/2023 6:41:11 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: Jonty30

CRY ME A RIVER——They don’t even deserve prison.

They deserve a MASS GRAVE.


28 posted on 05/31/2023 7:07:35 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: laplata

AND-—BIDEN is giving them CELL PHONES to organize


29 posted on 05/31/2023 7:09:00 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Angelino97

I have a feeling the prisoners are the ones doing the killing and torturing. But seeing as a “human rights watch” group is reporting it of course the prisoners are innocent victims wrongly convicted.


30 posted on 05/31/2023 7:12:55 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: ridesthemiles

You’re right.


31 posted on 05/31/2023 7:14:37 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Angelino97

Yep getting rid of filth is a dirty job.


32 posted on 05/31/2023 7:48:15 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Angelino97

143 out of 40,000? That’s hardly a reason to be concerned.

Last I read, there were zero murders in El Salvador in the last year.


33 posted on 05/31/2023 9:02:35 AM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: Angelino97

I wonder how tourism is going there?


34 posted on 05/31/2023 11:42:00 AM PDT by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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