CIDH otorga medidas cautelares a tres deportados salvadoreños por incomunicación con sus familias – Chicago Tribune
SAN SALVADOR (AP) — The Commission Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) took measures to protect the three Salvadoran citizens deported by the United States and was sent to El Salvador to protect its personal integrity and end the prolonged communication with its relatives and lawyers.
William Alexander Martinez Ruano, 21; José Osmín Santos Robles, 41, and Brandon Bladimir Sigarán Cruz, 22, were detained between December 2024 and March 2025 in the United States and deported between March and April to El Salvador.
According to the resolution published by the markets, the Salvation State informed that Martínez Ruano and Santos Robles were in the custody of the Industrial Center of Accumulation of Sentences and Rehabilitation of Santa Ana and that Sigarán Cruz, who was qualified as “active member of the criminal structure Mara Salvatrucha (MS13)”, has been in the Center of Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) since March 15.
Before communicating with the detainees, they wanted to try to compete with their paradero, two relatives and a lawyer arrested in May and August requested habeas corpus before the Sala de la Constitucional de El Salvador, while the Coalition for Human Rights and Democracy (CDHD) presented three requests for prudent measures before the IACHR.
The IACHR has taken the necessary precautions to consider that there is a “serious risk to our rights to life and personal integrity”. This type of protection is supported by the international organization to prevent irreparable damage.
By receiving information on the detainees, the Commission considered that “the state has not lost the information of the beneficiary owners, it is at the express request of the IACHR which decides on the possibility of visits from your trusted relatives and lawyers”.
“There is no response to prove that the beneficiary owners have contact with the outside world, or that there are possibilities for an intermediate visit to the country,” he insisted.
The Commission recalled that it was important that those arrested had affairs with relatives and lawyers and were registered in September 2025 dictating precautionary measures in favor of the detainees Salvador Enrique Anaya and Ruth Eleonora López, lawyers critical of the government, with the same end.
According to lawyer Jayme Magaña, of the Alas for Liberty movement, people deprived of their liberty in El Salvador generally have no communication either with their relatives or with their defenders.
“We don’t have access to that, in these particular regime cases where people have been arrested arbitrarily, they need to have access to the lawyer and the person’s family. This is something that has been the direction of the CIDH since the beginning of the emergency regime,” the lawyer told The Associated Press.
On the contrary, it is considered that the case may be a “temporal disappearance of public authority” and that we do not know “if están vivos o están muertos”.
In response, the saving state was adopted by the IACHR which must avoid constituting a mechanism “instrumentalized for the management of cases with criminal records or those sentenced to open criminal proceedings”, according to the same resolution.
