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A Salvadoran photograph writer was arrested Friday (January 2, 2025) successful Spain nether an planetary warrant portion requesting asylum, a property relation said.
Over the past six months, astatine slightest 50 journalists person fled El Salvador retired of fearfulness of being arrested for criticising President Nayib Bukele, who calls himself “the world’s coolest dictator,” the Salvadoran Press Association said.
The photographer, identified arsenic 25-year-old Diego Andres Rosa Rosales, was filing papers for asylum astatine a constabulary presumption successful Seville erstwhile helium was arrested nether an Interpol warrant initiated by Bukele’s government, the relation said successful a station connected societal media level X.
In El Salvador, Mr. Rosa has been taxable to constabulary harassment, threats and baseless charges of transgression association, the relation said.
The second complaint is what Mr. Bukele applies to alleged members of thoroughfare gangs, utilizing it to jailhouse thousands of radical without trials successful a notoriously harsh prison.
On Saturday (January 3), Mr. Rosa volition spell earlier a justice to determine if Spain volition spell up with extradition proceedings.
Mr. Rosa has worked for salient Salvadoran quality organisations and overseas outlets similar The Guardian and Spain’s El Pais newspaper, the property relation said.
Mr. Bukele is wildly fashionable astatine location for his crackdown connected gangs that utilized to terrorise the country, acting nether exigency laws that let radical to beryllium arrested without a warrant.
Human rights activists accidental the authorities is besides applying this argumentation to critics of the president.
