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Waging a campaign against gangs responsible for El Salvador having one of the world s highest murder rates, Congress in the Central American republic passed a bill on Tuesday criminalizing the.
Waging a campaign against gangs responsible for El Salvador having one of the world’s highest murder rates, the Salvadoran Congress on Tuesday passed a bill criminalizing the publication of gang messages, including by news outlets.
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele last month invoked emergency powers to suspend some constitutional rights to crackdown on gangs engaged in drug trafficking and extortion, and increased prison sentences for members of criminal organizations.
“When the Germans wanted to eradicate Nazism, they outlawed Nazi symbols. No one said anything,” Bukele wrote on Twitter after the bill was passed. “That’s what we’ll do with the gangs.”
The bill, which becomes
Human rights and judicial experts have slammed lawmakers aligned with El Salvador’s populist President Nayib Bukele for voting to dismiss top Supreme Court judges, a move they say aims to remove any opposition to Bukele’s firm grip on power.
On Saturday, the legislative assembly voted to dismiss all the justices in the Supreme Court’s constitutional chamber for issuing “arbitrary” decisions.
The lawmakers also voted to dismiss Attorney General Raul Melara, considered close to an opposition party.
Bukele’s Nuevas Ideas (New Ideas) party and its allies hold an absolute majority in the chamber after they overwhelmingly won legislative polls in February.