Cristosal, the main human rights organization in the Central American country, describes a regime of terror based on interviews with hundreds of people arrested and released after being declared innocent. Dozens of prisoners died from torture, beatings, mechanical asphyxiation by strangulation, injuries or simply left to die for lack of attention to deadly sufferings.
The authorities, for their part, have declared official information confidential in this regard and have limited themselves to ensuring that all deaths inside the prisons are due to natural causes.