El Salvador: Foreign Agents Law Targets Civil Society, Media

Abraham Abrego, Director of the Strategic Litigation of the human rights group Cristosal, speaks during a media call in San Salvador, El Salvador, May 21, 2025. Dozens of NGOs in El Salvador rejected the “Foreign Agents Law,” approved by Congress at the request of President Nayib Bukele. © 2025 MARVIN RECINOS/AFP via Getty Images (Washington, DC) – El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has approved a far-reaching “Foreign Agents” law that grants the government of President Nayib Bukele broad powers to monitor, sanction, and dissolve organizations labeled as foreign agents, Human Rights Watch…

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