Deported by the U.S. under President Trump’s mass removal policy, over 250 Venezuelan migrants were secretly sent to El Salvador’s CECOT megaprison where they endured months of abuse, torture, and isolation.

In a harrowing investigation by The Washington Post, detainees describe sexual assault, starvation, and beatings inside a facility built for gang members. Many had no criminal record. Discussing these accounts, Isabel Roby of RFK Human Rights states that the detainees’ treatment may have violated U.N. conventions against torture.

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