“The Congress of El Salvador repealed on Thursday [Nov. 2] two reforms to eliminate provisions that punished media of all types if they disseminated messages that could come from gangs or criminal groups.
The two reforms were approved on April 5, 2022 — at a time when President Nayib Bukele's government promoted heavy-handed policies to combat gangs — and were rejected by the Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES, for its acronym in Spanish) and organizations defending human rights because they considered them a violation of press freedom due to how ambiguous they were.”
