Researcher Juan Pappier, who is part of the Americas division of Human Rights Watch (HRW), said Friday that the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, “intimidates” judges, after the president called on the Supreme to “remove judges complicit in organized crime.”
“In El Salvador, @nayibbukele openly intimidates judges who don't decide how he likes it,” Pappier posted on Twitter.
For the researcher, this is “another demonstration of his absolute disregard for the rule of law”.
In response, the Salvadoran president wrote on his Twitter: “Homeboys (gang members) Rights Watch”.
Bukele stated on his social networks that “NO gang members have been released” - from those arrested under an emergency regime - and that supposedly “a judge tried to release 42 of a 2019 case, but ALL ARE STILL IN PRISON and the case will go to a higher instance.”
He also asked the Attorney General's Office, led by Rodolfo Delgado, a former lawyer for a state bank and the current director of the PNC, “to investigate this judge's possible links with organized crime and terrorist structures.”
Delgado arrived at the Prosecutor's Office on May 1, 2021, when the new ruling majority legislature removed then-Attorney General Raúl Melara, who had confronted Bukele and was investigating possible cases of corruption by his government.
The Bukele Administration has been constantly singled out for striking judicial independence and separation of powers.
The Supreme Court of Justice decided on Friday to remove San Salvador's judge, Godofredo Salazar, and send him to a court in the interior of the country. The decision came hours after President Nayib Bukele called for the removal of judges “accomplices” to organized crime and asked the Public Prosecutor's Office to investigate a judge who tried to free 42 gang members.
In an email, the Court informed Judge Salazar that he would be transferred to Ilobasco, in the central department of Cabañas, where he is due on Monday, April 4. Recently, a specialized sentencing court presided over by Salazar acquitted a 42-member structure of the Barrio 18 gang operating in the municipality of Panchimalco, in the southeast of the capital, of all charges. The court based its ruling on the lack of evidence on the part of the Public Prosecutor's Office to prove the crimes and the involvement of each of the accused. None were released.
On Sunday, April 3, El Salvador is celebrating a week of emergency, which suspends Salvadorans' rights such as defense in judicial proceedings and the inviolability of telecommunications, following an escalation of homicides that claimed the lives of more than 80 people over the weekend.
(With information from EFE)
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