El Salvador's top court limits executive quarantine power (April 16, 2020)
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El Salvador's top court sought to limit the government's ability to enforce a national lockdown with arrests. The five magistrates of El Salvador's Constitutional Court unanimously ruled that President Nayib Bukele and the country's security forces must abstain from infringing on human rights in the name of coronavirus quarantines. The judges said Bukele was not authorized to deprive people of liberty nor send them to confinement centers unless Congress approves a formal law empowering the measure. (
El Salvador's top court limits executive quarantine power (April 16, 2020)
El Salvador's top court limits executive…
El Salvador's top court limits executive quarantine power (April 16, 2020)
El Salvador's top court sought to limit the government's ability to enforce a national lockdown with arrests. The five magistrates of El Salvador's Constitutional Court unanimously ruled that President Nayib Bukele and the country's security forces must abstain from infringing on human rights in the name of coronavirus quarantines. The judges said Bukele was not authorized to deprive people of liberty nor send them to confinement centers unless Congress approves a formal law empowering the measure. (