The migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcíawho was illegally deported to El Salvador by the administration of Donald Trumphe denounced having suffered torture during his stay in the Megacárcel from the Central American country built for gang membersas recorded in revealed judicial documents.
Ábrego García, of Salvadoran nationality, suffered severe beat Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT)they detailed their lawyers in a letter before a Maryland court, USA.
This is the first time that Ábrego García gives details of his experience in the CECOTwhere it was sent last March with a group of Venezuelan migrants and Salvadorans Although he had an order from an American judge who protected him from being deported to his native country.
This framework was inaugurated by the government of Nayib Bukele To enclose a gang members.
Although activists denounce human rights violations in those facilities, the Ábrego García It is one of the few direct testimonies of what happens there.
According to the story of Ábrego García, released by his lawyers, “he underwent physical and psychological torture, including beatings, sleep deprivation, extreme overcrowding, poor diet, threats and constant exposure to bright lights.”
He and others migrants “They were forced to remain on your knees” for several hours during the night and the guards hit anyone who fell into tiredness.
The detainees were confined in a cell with lights on 24 hours a day and piled up in metal bunk beds without mattresses.
“Access to the bathroom was also denied, forcing him to get dirty, and subjected to constant humiliations and threats by the guards.”
Due to the bad and insufficient food, Ábrego García lost 14 kilos during the two weeks in which he was held in the CECOTbefore being sent to another Salvadoran prison in the middle of the strong media pressure that its case generated in USA.
Although the Supreme Court ordered its return to territory United States When considering that its deportation had been “illegal”, the Trump administration and the Bukele government They refused for months to facilitate their return, claiming, without evidence, that Ábrego García is a dangerous member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13).
However, on June 6 its return was completed after the US Prosecutor undocumented migrants.
Ábrego García is currently detained in a prison Nashville. He has declared himself innocent and his defense alleges that he is persecuted by him United States Government to justify the error that was made with its deportation to El Salvador.
Although a judge ordered his release while his judicial process lasts, the defense requested that he remain in federal custody, given that the Customs Immigration and Control Service (ICE) intends to arrest and deport it to a different country from El Salvador When he goes out.
Abrego García, 30, entered the United States irregularly in 2012, being a minor, and settled in the state of Maryland, where he met his wife, with whom he formed a family.
An immigration court determined in 2019 that he was “deportable” but an asylum judge issued an order that protected him from being sent to his native country due to the persecution suffered from the gangs.