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In El Salvador, shackled prisoners watch their mass trial on a big screen

April 24, 2026 4:43 pm

[Source: Reuters]

From inside a Salvadoran mega prison, more than one hundred alleged gang members sit in rows, wrists cuffed and ankles shackled, to watch court ​proceedings on a large screen that will decide the fate of all of them.

Reuters witnessed the scene ‌on Thursday as the court oversaw the trial of 486 suspected gang members in the largest mass trial yet under President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gang violence.