The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) reported the conviction of Cristian Otoniel Roque Carias, for the crime of aggravated femicide against his former partner in April 2022, in the district of Zaragoza, La Libertad, at a time when there is an upturn in the victimization of women in the country.

A report of the Observatory of Gender Violence of the Organization of Salvadoran Women for Peace (Ormusa) stated that, from January 1 to August 1, 2024, at least 21 women were murdered in El Salvador, which keeps the country in the list of the countries in the region of the Americas with the highest rate of feminicides.

The FGR report stated through its X account that Roque Carias “cornered the victim in her room and after an argument, he attacked her with a knife, taking her life”, and that the woman’s decomposed body was found days later.

The National Civil Police (PNC) has reported that, following the murder of a woman in Tecoluca, municipality of San Vicente Sur, six out of a total of 15 murders committed in the country in August, have targeted women.

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