Lawyers representing 252 Venezuelan migrants, deported under the Trump administration, allege these individuals are victims of physical and emotional torture during their two-month imprisonment in El Salvador. The law firm has struggled to communicate with the migrants in a mega-prison and filed a habeas corpus to contest what they claim is illegal detention. The Bukele administration, which has tight ties with Trump's administration, has remained unresponsive to requests for visitations, highlighting a troubling lack of transparency and concern for the detainees' wellbeing amidst allegations of treating migrants as common criminals.
This is torture, both physically and psychologically, Rios said in an interview with AFP. They are treating them like common criminals.
We are seeking proof of life... but we have come up against a wall of silence from President Nayib Bukele's administration.
The government merely provides a service that we could call prison accommodation, said Salvadoran vice-president Felix Ulloa.
Trump invoked rarely used wartime legislation in March to fly migrants to El Salvador without any court hearing, alleging they belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang.
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