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Terrorism Confinement Center. The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated and commonly referred to as CECOT) is a maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built in late 2022 amidst a large-scale gang crackdown in El Salvador and was opened by the Salvadoran ...
Ana Margarita Gasteazoro (1950–1993) was a Salvadoran political activist and political prisoner. Born to a wealthy family, she was a clandestine operative with the Farabundo Martí Popular Liberation Forces during the Salvadoran Civil War. In 1981, she was disappeared by the Salvadoran National Guard and spent two years in prison.
Comadres ( CoMadres) is the committee of mothers and relatives of prisoners, the disappeared and the politically assassinated of El Salvador .The offices of the committee were subject to police raids by the government, and the members were allegedly subject to systematic rape in order to destroy the organization. [9]
The data source (World Prison Brief) (WPB) does not list an incarceration rate for the United Kingdom as a whole, with its territories, and other subnational areas, etc.. In the main table see England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Anguilla, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, British Virgin Islands.
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Maria Teresa Rivera is a woman human rights defender, working an abortion rights, from El Salvador. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison for aggravated homicide in 2011 after having a miscarriage. She served 4 and a half years of her sentence before being released. In March 2017, Rivera and her 12-year-old son were given asylum by the ...
Gender inequality can be found in various areas of Salvadoran life such as employment, health, education, political participation, and family life. [1] [2] [3] Although women in El Salvador enjoy equal protection under the law, they are often at a disadvantage relative to their male counterparts. In the area of politics, women have the same ...
Crime in El Salvador has been historically extremely high due to the presence of various gangs. As of 2011, there were an estimated 25 000 gang members at large in El Salvador; with another 43 500 in prison. [1] The best-known gangs, called maras in colloquial Salvadoran Spanish, are Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and their rivals 18th Street; maras ...