El Salvador’s government will continue to detain more than 80,000 people accused of being gang members and swept up under President Nayib Bukele’s state of emergency. Salvadoran lawmakers voted Friday to extend their imprisonment for at least two more years without trial, even as prosecutors have not yet presented any evidence linking tens of thousands of people to gangs. Protests broke out in the capital San Salvador with the families of detainees calling for their relatives’ release and an end to Bukele’s state of emergency. This is a Salvadoran mother whose son is being detained.

Salvadoran mother: “My son has been there for four years. On May 10th, he completed three years, and now he’s entering his fourth. Now I hear the news. They’re saying there’s a two-year extension for him. How many more years do they have to hold him? Why do they give me this and not release him?”