Salvadoran President Bukele denies beating and torture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The Associated Press reports that El Salvador President Nayib Bukele denied allegations that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was beaten and subject to psychological torture in a Salvadoran prison.  In a post on the social media platform X, Bukele wrote that Abrego Garcia “wasn’t tortured, nor did he lose weight.” The post included pictures and video of Abrego Garcia in a detention cell.

Abrego Garcia said he suffered severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation and psychological torture in the Salvadoran prison the Trump administration had deported him to in March.

 

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Thursday denied accusations that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the migrant returned to the U.S. in early June after being wrongfully deported to his native El Salvador, was tortured in a Salvadoran prison. https://t.co/NBVnywLrdS

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