“We’re living through a moment where history is repeating itself,” said Ingrid Escobar, leader of the human rights legal group Socorro Juridico, who fled El Salvador with her two children. “We’ve lost ...

El Salvador's most prominent human rights group says it's been forced into exile, citing threats and harassment from the ...

The group, Cristosal, has investigated prison deaths and torture under President Nayib Bukele. Its employees were threatened ...

El Salvador’s top human rights organization, Cristosal, says it is leaving the country after harassment and legal threats by ...

A prominent human rights group critical of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has suspended operations in the country, citing the government’s harassment, repression and persecution of human rights ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's drive to consolidate his grip on power and crack down on critics and humanitarian ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's authoritarian regime is forcing human rights defenders like the nonprofit Cristosal to ...

Cristosal, wary of newly restrictive laws and the arrest of one of its staffers, follows dozens of journalists, lawyers and rights advocates into exile.

A leading rights group investigating corruption in El Salvador has been forced into exile due to a crackdown by President ...

Cristosal is the latest group to be pushed out of the country as part of the government’s crackdown. The investigative outlet El Faro has been running most of its operations in exile from Costa ...

Cristosal has been working in El Salvador since 2000, when it was founded by Evangelical bishops in order to address human rights and democratic concerns following the country’s brutal civil war.