Extension 36 of the exception regime was endorsed with the votes of 57 deputies of 60 In Congress, during the plenary session corresponding to this week.
The measure, implemented to “fight” gang members, will continue until April 5 of the current yearaccording to the decree read by the official deputy Elisa Rosales.
The extension is justified that “the criminal groups, in their attempt to survive, have adopted new strategies, including the recruitment of children and adolescents especially in educational institutions trying to resurface student gangs. ”
This regime, which has left the capture of more than 85 thousand alleged gang members And of alleged people linked to these structures, it will meet on March 27 three years of its implementation amid controversies for supposedly violating human rights.
La @AsambleaSV Legislativa aprobó una nueva prórroga del Régimen de Excepción.
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