The 2025 State Department report claims there were "no credible reports of significant human rights abuses" in El Salvador despite widespread documentation of prison torture.

After the Trump administration slashed the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices—cutting roughly two-thirds of the content and eliminating entire categories of abuses while firing over 1,300 human rights staff—can asylum seekers still rely on these State Department reports to corroborate persecution claims in immigration court?

Which federal law requires the State Department to submit annual human rights reports to Congress, and what does it mandate the reports contain?