El Salvador arrests rights lawyer helping migrants deported by Trump

Police in El Salvador have arrested a prominent human rights lawyer with an organization helping families of imprisoned Venezuelan migrants who were deported by the United States, authorities said Monday.

The Cristosal rights group called for the immediate release of activist and attorney Ruth Eleonora Lopez, a critic of President Nayib Bukele.

The 47-year-old, who was detained late Sunday, is accused of embezzling state funds when she worked for an electoral court a decade ago, the public prosecutor's office said.