El Salvador President Denies Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The president of El Salvador is refuting Accusations made by Kilmar Abrego García – The man whose wrong deportation of the Trump administration has fed a one -month legal saga – In which he said he was beaten and subject to psychological torture while in prison in the Central American country.

President Nayib Bukele, in a publication on the social media platform X, wrote that Abrego García “was not tortured, or lost weight.” He included photos and videos of Abrego García in a detention cell at the Terrorism Confinement Center of El Salvador, or Cecot, earlier this year.

“If I had been tortured, deprived of sleep and hunger, why do you look so well in each image?” Bukele wrote.

This week, Abrego Garcia alleged In a new legal presentation, he faced “psychological torture” and “severe beatings” after being sent to the notorious Supermax prison, Trump’s administration had deported by mistake in March.

In the court documents presented on Wednesday, Abrego García said he was kicked and beaten so often after his arrival that the next day, he had bruises and visible packages throughout the body. He said that he and another 20 were forced to kneel all night and that the guards hit anyone who fell.

Abrego García’s lawyers have previously described their period of more than three weeks in CECOT as “torture.”

In the new judicial documents, Abrego García said that Cecot’s detainees “were limited to metal literas without mattresses in a superpobiled cell without windows, bright lights that remained 24 hours a day and minimum access to sanitation.”

After more than three weeks, Abrego García claimed that he was transferred to a different area and was “photographed with mattresses and better food” in what he thought it was staged images.

The description of Abrego García is in line with the accounts of other Salvadorans who were arrested under the state of emergency of Bukele, where the government has arrested more than 1% of the population of the Central American nation in its war against the gangs of the country.

Hundreds of people have died in prisons, according to human rights groups, which have also documented cases of torture and deteriorated conditions.

Abrego García, a Salvadoran citizen, lived in Maryland when he was deported by mistake and became a point of inflammation in the repression of immigration of President Trump. He was transferred back to the United States at the beginning of June, months after a Maryland judge ordered his return, and loaded immediately With human smuggling in Tennessee.

The new details of Abrego García’s imprisonment in El Salvador were added to a lawsuit against the Trump administration that Abrego García’s wife presented at the Maryland Federal Court after being deported.

The Trump administration has asked a federal judge in Maryland to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that it is now debatable because the government returned it to the United States as ordered by the court.

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