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> SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Human Rights Watch says it has obtained a database leaked from El Salvador's government that corroborates massive due process violations, severe prison overcrowding and deaths in custody under the emergency powers put in place last March to confront a surge in gang violence.

> El Salvador's Legislative Assembly approved the suspension of some fundamental rights following an outburst of violence from the country's powerful street gangs.

> ADVERTISEMENT. Many of the abuses have been previously reported by Human Rights Watch and local civil society organization Cristosal, but the government data added some detail.

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