Prisoner Release – 1993
1993
Full Implementation 
After the release of the report of the Commission on the Truth, the Government issued a general amnesty to protect those implicated for human rights violations. As a consequence, notorious convicted criminals were freed, such as FAES officers Guillermo Benavides and Yusshy Rene Mendoza, who were convicted for the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests and sentenced to thirty years in prison.1 This ran counter to the specific recommendations of the Commission on the Truth and betrayed the intentions behind the Peace Agreement provisions on prisoner release, which were to release the political prisoners associated with the FMLN.