Kilmar Ábrego García was tortured in Salvadorian prison, court filing alleges | Kilmar Ábrego García
Kilmar ábrego García, the man of Maryland who was wrongly deported to Salvador and detained in one of the most notorious prisons in this country, was tortured physically and psychologically during the three months that he passed in Salvadorian custody, according to new court documents posted on Wednesday.
While he was detained in the so-called terrorism confinement center (CECOC) in Salvador, Ábrego García and 20 other men “were forced to kneel from 9 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., according to court documents deposited by his lawyers before the Federal District Court of Maryland.
The guards struck anyone who fell out of exhaustion while he knelt down, and during this time, “Ábrego García was denied access to the toilet and sagsi”, according to the file.
The detainees were held in a overcrowded cell without windows and lively lights over 24 hours a day. They were confined in superimposed metal beds without mattresses.
The testimony of Ábrego García is one of the first detailed ideas that the world has on the conditions within Cecot, a megaprison which, according to the defense groups of man, is designed to disappear people.
His lawyers say he lost 31 pounds in his first two weeks of confinement. Later, they write, he and four others were transferred to another part of the prison “where they were photographed with mattresses and better photos of food which seemed to be staged to document improved conditions”.
Deposits also note that prison officials recognized that Ábrego García was not a member of a gang and that his tattoos did not indicate gang affiliation. “Prison officials explicitly recognized that the applicant’s tattoos Ábrego García were not linked to the gangs, telling him that your tattoos are doing well ”,” according to the file, and they kept it in a cell separated from those who are accused of adhesion to a gang.
Prison officials, however, threatened to move Ábrego García to a cell with gang members who, according to officials, “tear it”.
Ábrego García is currently in police custody in Nashville. The Trump administration brought him back from El Salvador after initially stated that he was helpless to do so. The United States Ministry of Justice wants it to be judged on accusations of human smuggling. The administration also accused him of being a member of the street gang MS-13, and Donald Trump said that the tattoos of Ábrego García indicate that it belonged to the gang.
Ábrego García pleaded not guilty about smuggling charges, which his lawyers have described as attempted to justify the administration’s error by deporting it after the fact.
On Sunday, a judge of Tennessee ordered his release while his criminal affair takes place, but the prosecutors declared that American immigration and the application of customs (ICE) would take Ábrego García in detention if that were to happen and that he would be expelled before he had the opportunity to endure the trial.
A lawyer for the Ministry of Justice, Jonathan Guynn, also told a federal judge from Maryland that the administration would expel Ábrego García not in Salvador but to another third country – contradict the prosecutor General Pam Bondi that he would be sent to El Salvador.
In the middle of the confusion, the lawyers of Ábrego García asked that their client remains in police custody, fearing that if he was released, he would be expelled. The hearings to come in Maryland and Tennessee will help to decide if Ábrego García will be able to stay in the United States and be released from prison.
