US EditionUS and El Salvador Guilty of 'Grave' Crimes of Enforced Disappearance, Arbitrary Detention: HRW
- Human Rights Watch accused the U.S. And El Salvador of grave crimes related to the deportation of over 230 Venezuelan nationals, citing enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention as violations of international human rights law.
- The Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act to justify these deportations, claiming ties to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, but provided little evidence to support these allegations.
- Venezuelan families report that they have heard nothing about the fate of their relatives since deportation, with no legal basis provided by Salvadoran authorities for their detention.
- Human Rights Watch is calling for the U.S. To identify the deported individuals and for El Salvador to disclose their whereabouts and legal justification for their detention.
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US and El Salvador responsible for disappearances of Venezuelan deportees, HRW reports
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Friday that the governments of the United States and El Salvador have subjected more than 200 Venezuelan nationals to forced disappearances and arbitrary detention. In a dramatic escalation of immigration practices, authorities removed 238 Venezuelans from US detention on March 15, 2025, transferring them directly to El Salvador’s Center for Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), a facility notorious for its abusive …
SC woman was aiding children of 85,000 jailed Salvadorans. Then US support vanished.
A nonprofit with an S.C.-based CEO wanted to help El Salvador provide services for children of jailed parents. But the Trump administration terminated the group’s contract through USAID.
The Colombo-Venezolana family awaiting the return of their son detained in El Salvador’s megacarcel: “We ask Trump to release him”
The Palencia Benavides family has not slept calm for a month, the time it has not known how Brayan, the second son of the marriage between the Colombian Amine Ester and the Venezuelan Erly. The last news of the 24 year old was a list: his name was among the 238 migrants deported by the United States to El Salvador, accused of being part of the Aragua Train, the transnational criminal band of Venezuelan origin that US President Donald Trump has d…
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