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Labor Rights Group Asks El Salvador’s Supreme Court to Strike Down Contentious ‘Foreign Agents’ Law
EL SALVADOR, JUL 24 – The law imposes a 30% tax on foreign funding and requires registration, prompting concerns it targets groups defending human rights and undermines democratic institutions.
- On Thursday, Movement for the Defense of the Rights of the Working Class asked the Supreme Court to strike down the foreign agents law, claiming it breaches over a dozen constitutional articles.
- After its May enactment, the law imposes a 30% tax on foreign funds and requires registration with a new government body, amid crackdowns that have driven over a hundred exiles.
- The legislation applies to any person or organization influenced by foreign interests, covering roughly 8,000 groups, critics warn it mimics repressive laws in Russia, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
- Silvia Navarrete warned `The law seeks to criminalize individuals and organizations`, Cristosal announced its departure and Morena Murillo said it targets groups documenting rights violations.
- Many groups remain unregistered with the Ministry of Governance, exposing them to the law's requirements, as roughly 8,000 organizations operate in El Salvador.
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By Merlin Delcid, CNN A group of social organizations asked the Supreme Court of El Salvador on Thursday to declare unconstitutional the Foreign Agents Law, which establishes a 30% tax on transactions, disbursements, donations, or in-kind imports received by non-governmental organizations funded abroad. The organizations are asking the judges to issue an injunction suspending the law's entry into force until they "issue a final ruling." The Cons…
By Merlin Delcid, CNN A group of social organizations asked the Supreme Court of El Salvador on Thursday to declare unconstitutional the Foreign Agents Law, which establishes a 30% tax on transactions, disbursements, donations, or in-kind imports received by non-governmental organizations funded abroad. The organizations are asking the judges to issue an injunction suspending the law's entry into force until they "issue a final ruling." The Cons…
They ask the Justice of El Salvador to declare unconstitutional the law against oeneges A civil organization in El Salvador asked the Supreme Court this Thursday to declare “inconstitutional” a controversial law with which according to human rights oeneges the government of Nayib Bukele seeks to silence them. Driven by Bukele, the law entered into force on June 7 after it was approved by the Congress dominated by officialism. It is similar to ex…
Social organizations request to declare unconstitutional the Law on Foreign Agents EL SALVADOR.- The Movement for the Defense of the Working Class (MDCT), made up of several civil society organizations, filed an application for unconstitutionality against the Law on Foreign Agents (LAEX), requesting the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of El Salvador, [...] La entrada El Salvador Social organizations request to declare unconstitution…
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