El Salvador president denies Kilmar Abrego Garcia's claims of abuse in prison

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The president of El Salvador is refuting allegations made by Kilmar Abrego Garcia - the antheral whose mistaken deportation by the Trump medication has fueled a monthslong ineligible saga – successful which helium said helium was beaten and taxable to intelligence torture portion successful situation successful the Central American country.

President Nayib Bukele, successful a station connected the social media level X, wrote that Abrego Garcia "wasn't tortured, nor did helium suffer weight." He included pictures and video of Abrego Garcia successful a detention compartment astatine El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, oregon CECOT," earlier this year.

"If he'd been tortured, sleep-deprived, and starved, wherefore does helium look truthful good successful each picture?" Bukele wrote.

This week, Abrego Garcia alleged successful a caller ineligible filing that helium faced "psychological torture" and "severe beatings" aft helium was sent to the notorious supermax situation the Trump medication had mistakenly deported him to successful March.

In the tribunal documents filed Wednesday, Abrego Garcia said helium was kicked and deed truthful often aft his accomplishment that by the pursuing day, helium had disposable bruises and lumps each implicit his body. He said helium and 20 others were forced to kneel each nighttime agelong and guards deed anyone who fell.

Abrego Garcia's lawyers have previously described his much than three-week stint astatine CECOT arsenic "torture."

In the caller tribunal documents, Abrego Garcia said detainees astatine CECOT "were confined to metallic bunks with nary mattresses successful an overcrowded compartment with nary windows, agleam lights that remained connected 24 hours a day, and minimal entree to sanitation."

After much than 3 weeks, Abrego Garcia alleged helium was transferred to a antithetic country and was "photographed with mattresses and amended food" successful what helium believed to beryllium staged images.

Abrego Garcia's statement falls successful enactment with accounts from different Salvadorans who were detained under Bukele's authorities of emergency, wherever the authorities has detained much than 1% of the Central American nation's colonisation successful its warfare connected the country's gangs.

Hundreds of radical person died successful the prisons, according to quality rights groups, which person besides documented cases of torture and deteriorated conditions.

Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, was surviving successful Maryland erstwhile helium was mistakenly deported and became a flashpoint successful President Trump's migration crackdown. He was flown backmost to the U.S. successful aboriginal June — months aft a Maryland justice ordered his instrumentality — and promptly charged with quality smuggling successful Tennessee

The caller details of Abrego Garcia's incarceration successful El Salvador were added to a suit against the Trump medication that Abrego Garcia's woman filed successful Maryland national tribunal aft helium was deported.

The Trump medication has asked a national justice successful Maryland to disregard the lawsuit, arguing that it is present moot due to the fact that the authorities returned him to the United States arsenic ordered by the court.