El Salvador: Detainees

(asked on 27th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Salvadoran counterpart on reports of the detention of five environmental campaigners, Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas Laínez, Antonio Pacheco and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega.


Answered by
David Rutley Portrait
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 1st February 2023

I [Minister Rutley] discussed human rights issues during my meeting with the El Salvadoran Ambassador, Vanessa Interiano, in December 2022. Support for human rights in El Salvador is a continuing priority for the British Embassy in San Salvador, and officials regularly call on the Salvadoran Ministry of Foreign Affairs to discuss human rights challenges, including the need to treat all prisoners, including environmental campaigners, in line with international human rights standards and constitutional protections.

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