In El Salvador's mass trials, 'the innocent pay for the guilty'This handout image released by El Salvador's Attorney General's Office on April 1, 2026, shows a mass trial of alleged gang members by video conferencing. afpSOYAPANGO, El Salvador - Wearing white uniforms, their heads shaved, rows of bewildered-looking men are beamed by video link from prisons across El Salvador into a courtroom conducting a mass trial of alleged gang members. Bukele's mass incarceration policy has seen around 1.4 percent of El Salvador's population locked up without due process, creating a logistical headache for the country's courts. Criminal lawyer Roxana Cardona warned that the trials would turn El Salvador's prisons into "human pits." Prosecutors have grouped the detainees by alleged gang cell, according to their purported areas of operation.

Source: Bangkok Post April 06, 2026 03:20 UTC