Inmates stay in a cell at the Counter-Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT) mega-prison, where hundreds of members of the MS-13 and 18 Street gangs are being held. (Photo: AFP) TECOLUCA (EL SALVADOR) – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s unrelenting war on gangs is gradually filling the cellblocks of a enormous jail that might be Latin America’s biggest. At the complex in Tecoluca, southeast of the capital San Salvador, lots of prisoners with shaved heads peer out of a single cellblock. Standing out amongst the universal white T-shirts and shorts are some heads and necks covered in dark tattoos. AFP signedupwith federalgovernment human rights authorities this week in a uncommon trip of the jail, officially understood as the Terrorism Confinement Center, nearly precisely 6 months after its inauguration on February24 The huge jail has a capability for 40,000 prisoners, however now holds 12,114 implicated gang members. “We are standingfirm here day by day, attempting to modification with the assistance of our God,” Jose Hurquilla Bonilla, a member of the Barrio 18 gang, stated from inside a cell. Humanitarian organisations have questioned the treatment of declared gang members. The United Nations (UN) knocked that amongst the 10s of thousands of detainees throughout the country’s jails there are at least 1,600 minors. The jail was constructed to hold some of the more than 72,000 declared gang members apprehended under an emergencysituation program decreed in March 2022 by Congress at Bukele’s demand, in reaction to an escalation of violence that declared the lives of 87 individuals in simply 3 days. Inmates stay in a cell at the Counter-Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT) mega-prison, where hundreds of members of the MS-13 and 18 Street gangs are being held, throughout a humanitarian see arranged by the governmental commissioner for human rights and liberty of expression, Colombian Andrés Guzman Caballero, in Tecoluca, 74 kilometres southeast of San Salvador, on Monday. (Photo: AFP) Authorities implicate almost all of
Read More.
