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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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El Salvador is seeing worst rights abuses since 1980-1992 civil war, Amnesty reports

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El Salvador is experiencing one of the worst human rights crises since the country’s 1980-1992 civil war, because of President Nayib Bukele ’s harsh anti-gang crackdown, Amnesty International said in a report released Tuesday.

The rights group claimed that the almost 74,000 people jailed in the crackdown were subjected to “systematic use of torture and other mistreatment.”

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