Around 2,000 inmates transferred on Friday as part of president’s crime crackdown
El Salvador’s government has moved thousands of suspected gang members to a newly opened “megaprison”, the latest step in a controversial crackdown on crime that has caused the Central American nation’s prison population to soar.
“This will be their new home, where they won’t be able to do any more harm to the population,” the president, Nayib Bukele, wrote on Twitter.Photograph: Salvadorean Presidency/AFP/Getty Images About 2,000 accused gang members were moved to the 40,000-capacity ‘Terrorism Confinement Centre’ , considered to be the largest prison in theIn a video posted by Bukele, prisoners stripped down to white shorts, with their heads shaved, are seen running through the new prison into cells. Many bear gang tattoos.Photograph: Salvadorean Presidency/AFP/Getty Images
Bukele asked his allies in El Salvador’s congress to pass a state of exception last year, which has since been extended several times, that suspends some constitutional rights after a dramatic increase in murders attributed to violent gangs.
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