El Salvador Says US Legally Responsible for Venezuelan CECOT Inmates

El Salvador Denies Legal Responsibility For Arbitrarily Detained Venezuelan Migrants

El Salvador has denied any legal responsibility for the the 252 Venezuelans illegally imprisoned in that country. In a report that Salvadoran authorities delivered to the United Nations Human Rights Office, they deny having control over the 252 Venezuelan migrants and 50 more people of various nationalities, all of them illegally transferred by the United States to the Confinement Center for Terrorism (CECOT). While the Salvadoran authorities cl…

El Salvador Says U.S. Controls Fate of Venezuelans Transferred to Notorious Mega-Prison

The government of El Salvador has admitted to U.N. investigators that the Trump administration controls the fate of nearly 140 Venezuelan immigrants transferred from the U.S. to the notorious CECOT mega-prison. The finding came in a document issued in response to a U.N. inquiry that was obtained by lawyers for the Venezuelan men, indicating El Salvador says it bears no legal responsibility for the detainees. The revelations contradict claims by T

Trump has custody over jailed CECOT migrants, El Salvador says, complicating court fights

The government of El Salvador told the United Nations that more than 100 Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration to its maximum-security prison, CECOT, in March remain under the sole custody of the U.S. government — appearing to undercut months of assertions by senior Trump officials, who have repeatedly claimed they have no power to compel the return of these individuals.The U.N. report was included Monday in a court filing sub…

El Salvador Admits U.S. Has Jurisdiction Over Prisoners

“The government of El Salvador has admitted to investigators from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights that the Trump administration maintains control over the more than 200 Venezuelan men deported in March to the Salvadoran maximum-security mega-prison known as Cecot,” El Pais reports.

El Salvador says US has ‘jurisdiction and legal responsibility’ over migrants deported to its Cecot prison

The government of El Salvador has admitted to investigators from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights that the Trump administration maintains control over the more than 200 Venezuelan men deported in March to the Salvadoran maximum-security mega-prison known as Cecot (Center for the Confinement of Terrorism). “The actions of the State of El Salvador have been limited to the implementation of a bilateral cooperation mechanism w…