US EditionReport Documents Torture of Venezuelan Deportees in El Salvador Prison
- On Wednesday, Human Rights Watch and Cristosal released a report documenting torture and other abuses at El Salvador's Cecot against 252 Venezuelan migrants sent by the U.S.
- On March 15, the Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport men accused of Tren de Aragua membership, a move HRW says violated non-refoulement.
- Testimonies in the report detail that forty men interviewed reported severe daily beatings, medical neglect, and sexual violence, including punishments in an isolation cell called la isla.
- Families say ICE deleted detainees' names shortly after transfer, leaving 252 Venezuelans untraceable, while Cristosal filed 76 habeas corpus petitions with no response, and no governmental accountability emerged.
- Rights groups are calling on the Trump administration to stop sending third‑country nationals to El Salvador and to revoke the Alien Enemies Act proclamation, while the men were later returned to Venezuela in a prisoner swap exchanging 10 Americans.
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Almost up to the Abu Ghraib scandal in Baghdad in 2004. A report published this Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that the more than 250 Venezuelans who were sent to the Nayib Bukele megacarcel in El Salvador were subjected to systematic and prolonged torture, as well as sexual abuse and assault during their detention. Accused without proof of being part of the Aragua Train, the detainees had been expelled from the United States by the …
Venezuelans deported to El Salvador were tortured, rights groups say
Venezuelan nationals deported to El Salvador in the spring by the US government were tortured and ill-treated, advocacy groups reported Wednesday. According to an 81-page report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Cristosal, a regional advocacy group, members of a group of 252 Venezuelan deportees sent to El Salvador’s notorious Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT) were subjected to torture, arbitrary detention, and in some instances, s…
A report published on Wednesday 12 November reveals the conditions of detention of Venezuelan nationals expelled from the United States by the Trump administration, which the NGO considers "completion" of "torture" and "forced disappearance".
Venezuelans deported from the United States to El Salvador have been systematically abused and tortured there, according to an investigation by Human Rights Watch.
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