Salvadorians Appeal against Anti-Terrorist Law
Salvadorian social organizations lodged an appeal against the Antiterrorist Law on Thursday to the Supreme Court of Justice, and request its abolition from the Legislative Assembly for considering it unconstitutional.

According to Maria Silvia Guillen, director of the Foundation for Law Studies and its Implementation, that regulation approved in November 2006, is a tool the government could use against the social movement and the civil society.

She asserted that as the mentioned law prohibits free meeting, the government authorities will not allow the population to express inconformity with violation of its economic, social, and political rights.

El Salvador has become, with that legislation, a permanent state of siege, where any expression against the authorities can end up in capture and jail, with sentences of up to 60 years, she stated.

The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, the main opposition force in the country, said the law is an attack on rights.

It warned that the text does not specifies basic issues, and leaves very-important others undefined, thus they could endanger people´s life if implemented.