CISPES Solidarity with El Salvador

CISPES Solidarity with El Salvador We are a grassroots organization working with Salvadoran social movements against US imperialism

⚠️ El Salvador's Popular Rebellion & Resistance Bloc "rejects the criminalization of migrants and the violation of Salva...
03/19/2025

⚠️ El Salvador's Popular Rebellion & Resistance Bloc "rejects the criminalization of migrants and the violation of Salvadoran sovereignty by Trump and Bukele"

  🚨 | On March 13, Fidel Zavala of Unidehc El Salvador & 24 residents of the La Floresta community were ordered to 6 mon...
03/19/2025

🚨 | On March 13, Fidel Zavala of Unidehc El Salvador & 24 residents of the La Floresta community were ordered to 6 months of pretrial imprisonment, despite international alarm & possible threats to Zavala’s life behind bars. Updates on the case below ⬇️

On Friday, March 13, Fidel Zavala, spokesperson for the Community and Human Rights Defense Unit (UNIDEHC) and 24 residents of the La Floresta community who were unjustly arrested in February were sentenced to 6 months of pre-trial imprisonment by an organized crime court. The decision sidelined inte...

03/18/2025

| Bukele is using the state of exception to politically persecute grassroots human rights & land defenders in . Visit cispes.org/freefidel to learn more & take action now!

  | Human rights defenders from Unidehc El Salvador face a hearing today as the Bukele government escalates its attacks ...
03/18/2025

| Human rights defenders from Unidehc El Salvador face a hearing today as the Bukele government escalates its attacks on grassroots organizing in . Human rights attorneys Ivania Cruz & Rudy Joya, UNIDEHC spokesman Fidel Zavala, and 25 community leaders now face charges associated with organized crime for their lawful organizing & activism. Visit http://cispes.org/freefidel to learn more and take action today!

03/18/2025

☠️ ⚠️ | Today, the Catholic Church in El Salvador submitted 150,000 signatures to the legislature petitioning to overturn the Metals Mining Law that re-opened the country to toxic extractivism.

🚨 An initial hearing against prominent human rights attorneys Ivania Cruz & Rudy Joya of Unidehc El Salvador is set to s...
03/18/2025

🚨 An initial hearing against prominent human rights attorneys Ivania Cruz & Rudy Joya of Unidehc El Salvador is set to start today in a court intended for ORGANIZED CRIME. Defending human rights is NOT a crime. & all human rights defenders

Fiscalía General de La República de El Salvador:

🚨   | The World Organisation Against Torture & FIDH - International Federation for Human Rights issued an urgent ACTION ...
03/17/2025

🚨 | The World Organisation Against Torture & FIDH - International Federation for Human Rights issued an urgent ACTION ALERT for the immediate release of Fidel Zavala & the criminalization of Unidehc El Salvador human rights defenders Ivania Cruz & Rudy Joya in ➡️

El Salvador 14.03.25 Intervenciones urgentes El Salvador: Detención arbitraria de Fidel Zavala, allanamiento de la casa de Ivania Cruz y de la oficina de UNIDEHC © Shutterstock Recursos / El Salvador: Detención arbitraria de Fidel Zavala, allanamiento de la casa de Ivania Cruz y de la oficina de ...

  | "Él ya estuvo encarcelado y fue encontrado inocente y lo liberaron, pero el gobierno en lugar de respetar esa decisi...
03/17/2025

| "Él ya estuvo encarcelado y fue encontrado inocente y lo liberaron, pero el gobierno en lugar de respetar esa decisión judicial y seguir en paz ha optado por ver cómo mantiene al compañero en la cárcel y silenciarlo" - José Luis Fuentes Román, National Lawyers Guild

José Luis Fuentes Román, abogado y miembro del National Lawyers Guild de EUA, habló con LA PRENSA GRÁFICA sobre el apoyo que ellos y otras 170 organizaciones internacionales están brindado a Fidel Zavala y la Unidehc, y los motivos para hacerlo.

03/17/2025

| "There is no doubt that Fidel Zavala is a victim of persecution. They want to criminalize grassroots organizations that are defending human rights, like MOVIR, which doesn't have legal NGO status" - Samuel Ramírez, Movimiento de Víctimas del Régimen, MOVIR

🚨   | As under Bukele's state of exception, Trump is dispensing with due process under the pretext of fighting organized...
03/16/2025

🚨 | As under Bukele's state of exception, Trump is dispensing with due process under the pretext of fighting organized crime to expel migrants into deadly conditions in El Salvador's prisons in a massive violation of domestic & international law

"A brief delay in their removal does not cause the government any harm," U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg said during a hearing on Saturday.

  | ⏰ A decision in the preliminary hearing against persecuted human rights defender Fidel Zavala & the La Floresta comm...
03/14/2025

| ⏰ A decision in the preliminary hearing against persecuted human rights defender Fidel Zavala & the La Floresta community will be announced at 2:30PM today
➡️ Take action NOW at cispes.org/fidelaxn

🚨 Bukele’s war on gangs has long been used to intimidate land & human rights defenders. ‼️Take action denounce that  ,  ...
03/14/2025

🚨 Bukele’s war on gangs has long been used to intimidate land & human rights defenders.

‼️Take action denounce that , community leaders & grassroots human rights group are now facing “illicit associations” in an organized crime tribunal.

📢 This is a blatant attack on the constitutional rights of Salvadorans to freedom of association and the right to organize.

➡️ Take action now at CISPES.org/fidelaxn 🧵


🚨 La utilización del régimen de excepción para intimidar a líderes comunitarios, defensores de tierras y de derechos humanos no es nuevo.

‼️Toma accion para denunciar la accusacion de Fidel Zavala, UNIDEHC, y líderes comunitarios de La Floresta de “agrupaciones ilícitas” y el uso de tribunales contra el crimen organizado en este caso.

📢 Este es un ataque alarmante al derecho constituciónal que tienen los salvadoreños de libre asociación y de organizarse para defender sus derechos.

➡️ Toma Acción aquí: https://cispes.salsalabs.org/libertadafidel/index.html

03/13/2025

⚠️ 🚨| Join us to demand the release of Unidehc El Salvador spokesman Fidel Zavala and the leaders & residents of the La Floresta community!
➡️ Take action now at cispes.org/fidelaxn

  | Amnistía Internacional emitió una Alerta Urgente ante los ataques contra personas defensoras de derechos humanos y d...
03/13/2025

| Amnistía Internacional emitió una Alerta Urgente ante los ataques contra personas defensoras de derechos humanos y de la tierra: Toma acción hoy para exigir la liberación de Fidel Zavala y los líderes de La Floresta ➡️
https://cispes.salsalabs.org/libertadafidel/index.html

  | Join us to demand Fidel not be returned to prison, justice for the La Floresta community, and end to the criminaliza...
03/13/2025

| Join us to demand Fidel not be returned to prison, justice for the La Floresta community, and end to the criminalization of land & human rights defense in !

An initial hearing against Fidel Zavala, spokesperson for the Community and Human Rights Defense Unit (UNIDEHC) and 24 residents of the La Floresta community, including one pregnant woman, who were unjustly arrested in February is set to take place today, March 13, in an organized crime tribunal.

  | It's been 26 months since the arrest of El Salvador's   environmental defenders: "The criminalization and judicial p...
03/12/2025

| It's been 26 months since the arrest of El Salvador's environmental defenders: "The criminalization and judicial persecution continues"

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