El Salvador changed its laws last year to allow trials in absentia.
A JUDGE HAS sentenced former El Salvador president Mauricio Funes to 14 years in prison for negotiating with gangs during his administration.Prosecutors had accused Funes of illicit association and failure to perform his duties for the gang truce negotiated in 2012.Funes’ former security minister Gen David Munguia Payes was sentenced to 18 years in prison for his involvement in the negotiations.“I consider myself a political prisoner, for only having served as the ex-minister of President Funes.
Funes is the second former Salvadoran president sentenced to prison for illegal activity during his administration. El Salvador has pursued Funes, 64, who governed from 2009 to 2014, for other alleged crimes in at least a half dozen cases.In 2015, El Salvador’s Supreme Court ruled that the gangs are terrorist organisations.
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