No decision Wed. in U.S. v Kilmar Abrego Garcia
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In a new lawsuit filed last week, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father illegally deported in March by the Trump administration, alleges he was subjected to starvation, severe beatings, and sleep deprivation inside El Salvador’s US-backed CECOT prison,
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has cast aside allegations that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was beaten and subject to psychological torture in a Salvadoran prison.
In a rare account of conditions inside the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), Abrego’s attorneys say he and others deported there from the United States were beaten and forced to kneel for 9 hours.
His mistaken deportation became a flashpoint in tensions over the Trump Administration’s hardline immigration policy.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia says he was subjected to psychological torture and severe beatings in El Salvador’s CECOT prison after a mistaken U.S. deportation.
An ICE official provided testimony Thursday regarding the possible deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia -- but said that he himself had no involvement in his case.
Judge Paula Xinis proposed a 48-hour hold on deporting Abrego Garcia from the United States again, but the government refused to agree to those terms.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's time in a notorious Salvadoran prison was filled with "severe beatings" and torture, he claimed in his first detailed account of the days following his deportation.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported from the U.S. in March, says he was brutally beaten and subjected to psychological torture while held in one of El Salvador's most notorious prisons.
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