Abrego Garcia Says He Was Tortured in El Salvador Prison
Protesters rally outside of the Fred Thompson U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building in Nashville during a rally for Kilmar Abrego Garcia on June 13.
Photographer: William DeShazer for The Washington Post/Getty Images
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was severely beaten, deprived of sleep and subjected to psychological torture at an El Salvador mega-prison after he was wrongly deported from the US by the Trump administration, his lawyers said in a court filing.
Abrego Garcia spent more than three weeks at the notorious terrorism confinement center known as CECOT before he was transferred to another lockup in El Salvador and ultimately brought back to the US to face criminal charges.