Treatment of Venezuelan Migrants Held at Salvadoran Prison at U.S. Request Amounted to "Arbitrary Detention" and "Torture," Report Argues

Treatment of Venezuelan migrants held at Salvadoran prison at U.S. request amounted to "arbitrary detention" and "torture," report argues

A report released by human rights groups found that the treatment of Venezuelan migrants imprisoned in El Salvador amounted to arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance.

Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador endured systematic torture, report finds

Human rights groups accuse Trump officials of complicity and draw comparison with scandal at Abu Ghraib prisonMore than 252 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador under Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy suffered systematic and prolonged torture and abuse, including sexual assault, during their detention, according to a report published on Wednesday.The report, compiled jointly by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Cristosal – a group investigating v…