The president of El SalvadorNayib Bukele, acknowledged this Tuesday that he has freed around 8,000 innocent people who were detained within the framework of the emergency regime, established two and a half years ago to fight against gangs in the country.
“Obviously, the operations are not perfect and, well, without any intention of harming an innocent person, some innocent people are obviously captured, in the same way that they are in France, Germany and Japan and in all the countries of the world and we are releasing them. We have already freed 8,000 people and we are going to free 100 percent of the innocent people,” he declared.
The Salvadoran leader has argued that “there is no police force in the world that is perfect” and that people are captured and released by the judicial system, while he has tried to discredit the complaints of Human Rights organizations that have documented arbitrary detentions, abuses and deaths in prisons, according to the El Salvador news portal.
Bukeleon an official visit to the La Reforma prison in Costa Rica, stated in response to a journalist who was echoing a report about 30,000 innocent people detained that these figures are invented by opposition organizations and has urged the organizations to present a record with evidence that demonstrates such a condition.
Recently, relatives of innocent people who have been released from prison have questioned the conditions under which they have been released, because in most cases the processes have not been completed. They have also reported that there is no State reparation in these casesdespite the fact that this is stated in the Constitution.
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