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DESCRIPTION:Protest illegal detention and political persecution of former FMLN 
 government officials in El Salvador.\n\nOn July 22, Salvadoran police 
 illegally detained five former government officials from the leftist 
 Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) party and announced the 
 intention of detaining five others. Arrest warrants were not issued by a 
 judge prior to the arrests and it wasn’t until a press conference 
 following the illegal detentions on July 22, that detainees and their 
 lawyers were made aware of the Attorney General’s intention to charge 
 them with “embezzlement and money laundering.” \n\nAt a preliminary 
 hearing on July 28, the judge of the Second Justice of the Peace of El 
 Salvador ordered the five detainees to 6 months of pre-trial detention and 
 issued formal arrest warrants for five others, including former president 
 Salvador Sánchez Cerén. Prisoners have been transferred to La Esperanza 
 penal center, known as Mariona, and the Women's Prison in Ilopango while 
 their lawyers await instructions on the appeals process. Excessive 
 pre-trial detention is a common and unfortunate occurrence in El 
 Salvador’s judicial process as it violates the International Covenant on 
 Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) with regard to the presumption of 
 innocence. (Click here to download a PDF of this resource.)\n\nSee 
 www.cispes.org for more details and analysis of this.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/08/10/18844224.php
SUMMARY:Protest El Salvador government repression
LOCATION:El Salvador consulate\n507 Polk Street, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/08/10/18844224.php
DTSTART:20210813T190000Z
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