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Mass trial for 486 alleged gang members begins in El Salvador

BBC News · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · · 158 words
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What to know about Mass trial for 486 alleged gang members begins in El Salvador

Mass trial for 486 alleged gang members begins in El Salvador A mass trial of 486 suspected MS-13 gang members has begun in El Salvador, the country's attorney general's office has said.

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What happened

Mass trial for 486 alleged gang members begins in El Salvador A mass trial of 486 suspected MS-13 gang members has begun in El Salvador, the country's attorney general's office has said.

Why it matters

Footage released by the attorney general's office shows large groups of men in prison attending the trial via video link.

Common ground

The group are collectively accused of committing more than 47,000 crimes - including murder, extortion, drug and arms trafficking - between 2012 and 2022.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 4 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Footage released by the attorney general's office shows large groups of men in prison attending the trial via video link.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant results regarding deities and general information about El Salvador; there is no specific mention of footage released by the attorney general's office showing prisoners attending via video link.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Crime in El Salvador was historically high due to the presence of various gangs. In 2011, there were an estimated 25,000 gang members at large in El Salvador; with another 43,500 in prison. The best-k…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_El_Salvador
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez (born 24 July 1981) is a Salvadoran politician and businessman who has served as the 43rd president of El Salvador since 2019. In 1999, Bukele established an advertising com…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayib_Bukele
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Claim 2: “United Nations experts say mass trials "undermine the exercise of the right to defence and the presumption of innocence of detainees".”
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Two independent sources (EL PAÍS English and The Week) report that UN experts have criticized mass trials in El Salvador, specifically stating they 'undermine the exercise of the right to defence and the presumption of innocence of detainees'.
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web search NEUTRAL — Although the Constitution of the United States does not cite it explicitly, presumption of innocence is widely held to follow from the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments. The case of Coffin v. Un…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence
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web search NEUTRAL — According to the United Nations experts: “The excessive use of pre-trial detention, the prohibition of alternative measures, trials in absentia and the possibility of using practices such as ‘faceless…
https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-07-28/mass-tri…
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web search NEUTRAL — But mass trials have been criticised by human rights organisations, including a group of UN experts who claim they “undermine the exercise of the right to defence and the presumption of innocence of d…
https://theweek.com/law/ms-13-and-mass-trials-in-el-salvador
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Claim 3: “The group are collectively accused of committing more than 47,000 crimes - including murder, extortion, drug and arms trafficking - between 2012 and 2022.”
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Multiple independent web search results explicitly state that the defendants are collectively accused of more than 47,000 crimes, including murder, extortion, drug and arms trafficking, between 2012 and 2022.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Intel 486, officially named i486 and also known as 80486, is a microprocessor introduced in 1989. It is a higher-performance follow-up to the Intel 386. It represents the fourth generation of bina…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I486
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe. It consists of a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mifepristone, also known by its developmental code name RU-486, is a drug typically used in combination with misoprostol to bring about a medical abortion during pregnancy. This combination is 97% eff…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mifepristone
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Claim 4: “A mass trial of 486 suspected MS-13 gang members has begun in El Salvador”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that a mass trial of 486 suspected MS-13 gang members has begun in El Salvador, citing the country's attorney general's office.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz was deposed in a coup d'état in 1954, marking the end of the Guatemalan Revolution. The coup installed the military dictatorship of Carlos…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d'état
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — El Rosario is a municipality in the La Paz department of El Salvador.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Rosario,_La_Paz
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mifepristone, also known by its developmental code name RU-486, is a drug typically used in combination with misoprostol to bring about a medical abortion during pregnancy. This combination is 97% eff…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mifepristone
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