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El Salvador is a constitutional multiparty republic. Municipal and legislative elections held in March were generally free and fair.

Election results were delayed, however, due to problems with the transmission, tabulation, and public dissemination of the vote count under the management of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. Free and fair presidential elections took place in The principal human rights problems stemmed from widespread extortion and other crime in poor communities throughout the country. They included widespread corruption; weak rule of law, which contributed to high levels of impunity and government abuse, including unlawful killings by security forces, discrimination, and delay and lack of compliance with court rulings; and violence against women and girls including by gangsgender discrimination, and commercial sexual exploitation of women and children.

A Report On Behalf Of Abortion to a CID Gallup poll, more than one in five families claim to have been victims of Reporg crimes.

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There was also widespread discrimination and some violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex LGBTI persons. Impunity persisted here government steps to dismiss and prosecute some officials in the security forces, the executive branch, and the justice system who committed abuses.

During the year there were no verified reports that the government or its agents committed politically motivated killings. There were reports, however, of security force involvement in unlawful killings. As of October the attorney general was investigating 53 possible cases of extrajudicial killings. One took place innone in11 inand 41 in As of March A Report On Behalf Of Abortion Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman PDDH had received 12 complaints of alleged unlawful killings committed by security, military, and other public officials and found substantial evidence in two cases.

In September the PDDH stated that it was aware of approximately 50 cases involving potential extrajudicial killings. All but one of the alleged homicides were committed while the accused officers were on duty. On April 25, the PDDH found indications that the PNC and the armed forces had committed extrajudicial killings during the March San Blas case involving the killing of seven alleged gang members and one other person and the August Pajales case which involved the close-range killing of four unarmed gang members.

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The PDDH criticized the PNC and the armed forces for issuing a press release portraying the killings as the product of clashes with gang members. The PDDH also noted weak internal controls in the PNC and the armed forces and regretted the lack of interagency collaboration in the investigations.

On July 9, the attorney general ordered the arrest of seven police officers accused of committing extrajudicial killings in the San Blas case on charges of homicide and obstruction of justice. Seven officers were charged in the Pajales case, although there was no confirmation arrests were made. Funding for the extermination group reportedly came from Salvadorans living abroad. The nongovernmental organization NGO Cristosal compared PNC data that showed armed confrontations through Julyduring which suspected gang members died. A total of suspected gang members were killed in armed confrontations in A Report On Behalf Of Abortion, and 83 were killed in confrontations in The mortality rate of suspected gang members in confrontations with police during the first six months of the year was percent higher i.]