Thousands of gang members transferred to brand-new ‘mega jail’ in El Salvador

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    Thousands of gang members moved to new 'mega prison' in El Salvador

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    Police officers in riot equipment safeguarding the arrival of prisoners coming from the MS-13 and 18 gangs (Picture: Salvadorean Presidency/ AFP through Getty)

    Thousands of gang members have actually been moved to a brand-new ‘mega jail’ in El Salvador as part of a continuous crackdown on criminal activity which has actually sent out the jail population escalating.

    President Nayib Bukele composed on Twitter: ‘This will be their new home, where they won’ t have the ability to do anymore damage to the population.’

    Around 2,000 gang members were transferred to the 40,000- capability center, now thought about to be the biggest in the Americas.

    In a video published by Bukele, detainees disrobed to white shorts, with their heads shaved, are seen going through the brand-new jail into cells.

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    Inmates get here to the brand-new jail ‘Terrorist Confinement Centre’ (CECOT) (Picture: Salvadorean Presidency/ AFP through Getty)

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    The initially 2,000 gang members were moved from the Izalco jail (Picture: Salvadorean Presidency/ AFP through Getty Images)

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    It is thought about ‘America’ s biggest’ mega-prison (Picture: Salvadorean Presidency/ AFP through Getty)

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    It is geared up with state-of-the-art monitoring (Picture: Salvadorean Presidency/ AFP through Getty)

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    The prison is created to home 40,000 wrongdoers (Picture: Salvadorean Presidency/ AFP through Getty Images)

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    President Nayib Bukele is waging a ‘war’ on wrongdoers (Picture: Salvadorean Presidency/ AFP through Getty Images)

    Many bear gang tattoos.

    Bukele asked his allies in Congress to pass a state of exception in 2015, which has actually given that been extended a number of times.

    It suspends some humans rights after a remarkable spike in murders credited to violent gangs.

    Since then, more than 64,000 suspects have actually been jailed in the anti-crime dragnet.

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    The prisoners had their heads shaved and were disrobed to white shorts (Picture: Salvadorean Presidency/ AFP through Getty Images)

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    Many bore gang tattoos (Picture: Salvadorean Presidency/ AFP through Getty Images)

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    They were moved from the Izalco jail (Picture: Salvadorean Presidency/ AFP through Getty Images)

    Arrests can be made without a warrant, personal interactions are available by the federal government, and detainees no longer deserve to an attorney.

    Human rights organisations argue that innocent individuals have actually been captured up in the policy, consisting of lots who have actually passed away in authorities custody.

    But Bukele’s anti-gang push stays commonly popular with Salvadorans, and the nation’s security minister informed Reuters it would continue till all wrongdoers are caught.

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