Human rights organizations, politicians and experts have sharply criticized a law approved by El Salvador's Congress this ...

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

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

Critics of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele call his "arbitrary" arrest of human rights advocate Ruth López a deepening sign ...

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 p ...

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.

El Salvador’s National Civil Police have arrested ... According to representatives from Cristosal, the human rights group where López serves as Chief Legal Officer for Anti-Corruption; members ...

Cristosal has been one of the most outspoken ... documented and denounced the lack of respect of due process in El Salvador, as well as the use of government institutions to repress critical ...

Ruth Eleonora López, 47, a senior figure at the rights group Cristosal and a vocal critic of El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, a Trump ally, was detained late on Sunday. The arrest was ...

Cristosal said that Ms. López had now fallen ... software used to spy on journalists and human rights groups in El Salvador. “The link with Chicas in Ruth’s case is fabricated — a dubious ...