The mother of a human rights lawyer arrested in El Salvador says she was able to see and speak with her daughter more than 24 ...

Authorities in El Salvador have arrested a prominent attorney critical of President Nayib Bukele, in a move criticized by ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Authorities in El Salvador may be refocusing policies once used to attack organized crime on political opponents now.

More than 100 civil society organisation including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World ...

El Salvador's Nayib Bukele is a hero of the American right and portrays himself as a hip, innovative disrupter-in-chief ...

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.

Ruth Eleonora López has defended Venezuelan immigrants deported to El Salvador by US President Trump’s administration.