US EditionLawyers for Jailed Venezuelan Migrants Accuse El Salvador of 'Torture'
- In March 2025, the Trump administration deported 252 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, where they were held for two months in a high-security facility constructed under President Bukele’s leadership.
- In March, Trump employed seldom-utilized wartime powers to deport migrants to El Salvador without judicial review, accusing them of gang involvement—a claim strongly contested by their relatives and legal representatives.
- Grupo Ortega lawyers filed a habeas corpus petition on March 24 challenging the 'illegal detention' and accuse El Salvador of subjecting migrants to physical and psychological torture in prison.
- Lawyer Salvador Rios criticized the authorities for handling the migrants as if they were ordinary criminals and described their conditions as both physical and psychological torture, while lawyers have been denied access to visit them.
- The fate of the Venezuelans depends solely on Bukele, who offered to trade them for political prisoners held by Maduro, underscoring serious legal and human rights concerns raised internationally.
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