Salvadoran environmental lawyer Alejandro Henriquez was granted a conditional release after months of detention

Salvadoran environmental lawyer Alejandro Henriquez was granted a conditional release after months of detention

 Rudy QUIROZ

A Salvadoran court on Wednesday sentenced an environmental lawyer and a community leader to three years in prison for protesting near President Nayib Bukele's home, but granted them a conditional release.

Lawyer Alejandro Henriquez and evangelical pastor Jose Angel Perez had been detained since May after the protest where they demanded that Bukele prevent the eviction of members of a peasant cooperative from private land.

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