The right to legal defense for detainees and the inviolability of telecommunications will remain suspended. On Tuesday night, the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly, dominated by the ruling party Nuevas Ideas (NI), approved the thirty-second extension of the “State of Emergency.”

The extension of the state of emergency was approved without debate by 57 out of 60 legislators. It means that for another 30 days, the right to legal defense for detainees, the inviolability of telecommunications, and the maximum administrative detention of three days will remain suspended. This new extension is set to last until December 6.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele requested a further extension of the state of emergency, justifying it by stating that the state still needs to carry out an extraordinary intervention to counter the threat of criminal groups regrouping, stemming from remaining gang members in neighborhoods and communities.

His administration claims that the states of emergency have enabled it to eradicate gangs and reduce the homicide rate in this Central American nation.

However, a group of 2,500 members of the Armed Forces and the National Police were deployed on October 28 to a densely populated neighborhood in El Salvador to implement a “security cordon” due to the alleged presence of gang members. This security cordon adds to others set up in different areas of the Central American country to fight gangs in the context of the state of emergency.

This measure was approved following the killing of about 80 people over a weekend in late March 2022. With over 83,100 detentions, the state of emergency has become the government’s primary and only approach against gangs, which also helped President Bukele secure immediate reelection, despite constitutional prohibition.

Meanwhile, various human rights organizations have received more than 6,400 reports of human rights violations, mainly due to arbitrary detentions and torture, and report over 300 deaths of detainees in state custody, most showing signs of violence.

The Malmö District Court found that Paludan’s derogatory comments, which included claims that Arabs and Africans are violent, unintelligent and lazy and that Muslims are "really good at killing", went beyond permissible criticism of religion and amounted to racial incitement.

Paludan, 42, who has gained notoriety for his inflammatory Quran burnings and islamophobic hate propaganda that at one point angered Turkey enough to block Swedish , appeared via videolink during the trial, insisting he was merely expressing his political views. However, the court dismissed his defense, emphasizing that his remarks were intended to degrade Muslims and not foster any legitimate discussion. The court pointed out Paludan's blatant disregard for previous rulings, leading to a rejection of a suspended sentence.

Paludan, who holds dual Swedish and Danish citizenship, has decided to appeal the sentence and has stated that he is now "done with Sweden" and will focus his attention on Denmark where he feels "more safe".

Adding to his legal troubles, Paludan is also set to face trial in Denmark later this month for racist remarks against African's and Muslims that includes comparing the intelligence of Somalis to that of orangutans.

Paludan, a lawyer by profession, has been in trouble with the law several times and has a rap sheet that includes convictions for racist hate speech, defamation and reckless driving as well as fines from the Bar Association for violating good legal practice and a restraining order against a man who Paludan stalked and harassed for years.

In the 2019 Danish general election Paludan's "Hard Line" party ran on a platform of imposing a beefed-up version of the Nuremberg laws for Muslims and won 1.8 percent of the vote, falling short of the two percent threshold for receiving seats in parliament. The deputy leader of the party was Uwe Max Jensen, a far-right artist whose art mostly consists of defecating and urinating where he is not supposed to. Paludan has since attempted various grifts with little luck, including a football team named "The Soldiers of the Danes" and founding an explicitly islamophobic church with himself as archbishop.

Before devoting himself to the fascist cause he ran several blogs, one of which consisted of photos of pedestrians and cyclists who in Paludan's view were committing minor traffic offences. Another blog consisted of deeply creepy but technically legal comments on "beautiful" underage boys.