Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele dismissed claims by lawyers of suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia that he was tortured while in prison in the South American nation, according to a July 4 post on X by Bukele.
Garcia, 29, a native of El Salvador and an illegal immigrant, was sent to an El Salvadoran maximum security prison in El Salvador in March by the U.S. government for allegedly being a member of MS-13. Garcia was brought back to the United States last month after the Supreme Court ordered his return.
In a July 2 lawsuit filed by Garcia at the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against Trump administration officials, he claimed to have been tortured while in the CECOT prison, El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center. CECOT is one of the largest prisons in the world….