El Salvador Launches Mass Trial of 486 MS-13 Leaders Accused of 47,000 Crimes ...

Human rights groups have warned that the collective prosecutions violate due process and block defendants from accessing legal counsel ...

Human rights defenders criticize the process, calling it a judicial ‘shortcut’ that seeks convictions instead of establishing ...

El Salvador launched in late April the largest trial in the country's history against 486 alleged leaders of the Mara ...

El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, on Wednesday compared the collective trial of gang leaders in his country to the historic Nuremberg proceedings against top Nazi officials after World War II. A ...

Though El Salvador has been slow to learn from the man they already call a saint, the gang leader says there is no time like the present to start paying attention to the lessons Romero tried to teach ...

Homicides in El Salvador dropped sharply in 2025 as a result of a government crackdown on gangs, the Central American country's security minister said Monday.

A Salvadoran court on Tuesday began a collective trial of 486 alleged gang members, one of the biggest mass trials under President Nayib Bukele's ...

Nearly 490 alleged members of the powerful Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), including several alleged leaders, went on trial collectively in El Salvador on Monday, accused of thousands ...

A mass trial of 486 suspected MS-13 gang members has begun in El Salvador, the country's attorney general's office has said.

The attorney-general says 486 suspected MS-13 members have faced trial for 47,000 crimes committed between 2012 and 2022.