Kilmar Abrego Garcia Described a Harrowing Account of His Decainment During The Nearly Three Months He Was Wrongfully imprisoned in El Salvador Thanks to Donald Trump's Administration, Claiming He Was Beaten, Deprived of Sleep, and Psychologically tortured.
According to Court Papers Filed by His Lawyers on Wednesday, Upon His Arrival at Salvador's Notorious Cecot Prison, A Prison Official Told Detaines: “Welcome to Czechot. Whoever ENTERS HERE DOESN'T Leave.” Abrego Garcia was then allegedly forced to strip, struck in the legs, head, and arms to make him change faster, then was frog -mari to a cell While Being Hit with Wooden Batons Along the way.
The Filing in Maryland District Court Claims That Abrego Garcia and 20 Other Salvadorans in His Cell Were Force to Kneel from Approximatel 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guardi striking Anyone Who Colipsed from Exhaust. “During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied Bathroom Access and Soiled Himself,” Read the Filing. “The Detainees were border to metal bunks with no mattreresses in an overcrowded cell with no windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to health.”
During His First Two Weeks at Cecot, His Lawyers Said That He Lost 31 pounds.
Abrego Garcia's Legal Team Also Claimed That He and Four Others Were Moved in April “To Different Module In Checot, Where they Were Photographed with Matretresses and Better Food – Photos That Appeted to Be Staged Improved Conditions.”
ABRAGO GARCIA WAS AMONG Hundreds of Immigrants Whom the Administration Shipped to El Salvador Without Due Process Back in March, in Defiance of a Court Order. However, he Had Previously Been Granted a “Protection of Removal” Order Barring His Deportation to El Salvador – and his deportation was found to be “illegal” by the supreme court.
The Trump Administration For Almost Two Months Publicly Refused To Comply With The Supreme Court's Directive – As Well As Those from Maryland District Court Judge Paula Xinis and the Fouth Circuit Court of Appeals. It Finally Complied with the Directive in June, Returning Abrego Garcia to the United States. But the Justice Department Said That It Had Returned Him to the Us Only So That He Could Face A Federal Indictment, Dated May 21, Charging Him With “Alien Smuggling and Conspiracy to Commit Alien Smuggling.”
Last Month, The Magistrate Judge in the Tennessee Case, Barbara D. Holmes, Orthoded the Trump Administration to Release Abrego Garcia from Federal Custady on bail during the case. In A Scathing Order, She Skewered the Government's Attamps to Paint Abrego Garcia As a Hardened Criminal and Gang Member. Holmes Wrote That the evidence Bolstering the Government's Claims He Allegedly Smuggled Minors Was Based Largely on Hearsay, and Even ContraDicory Testimo, From Three individuals – Two Men in Denction Who Were Offered Deals for Their Testimony, and a Woman Related to One of Them.
Since Then, The Administration Has Said They Plan to Have Abrego Garcia Arrested by Immigrations and Customs EntForcement (Ice), and that he couus be deported to a Third Country, or one that is not his place of Origin – Forcing His Lawyers to Request He Stay in Justice Department Custody for Now, a Request The Tennessee Court Temporaily Granted. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Meanwhile, Previusly Wrote on x that Abrego Garcia “Will Be Tried, Jaled, and then deported Again to El Salvador.”
In Filing Before Xinis in Maryland, Abrego Garcia's Lawyers Write that the Trump Administration Has “Refused to Identify Which Country they proposed to Remove Him to, Thereby Dennying Him the Opportunity to seek Protecting from Removal to That Country As Required by Law.”
The Lawyers Request that the Court Order That “Defenseants May Not Remove Mr. Abrego Garcia From The Continental United States Without First Providing Him and His Counsel With Written Notice of the Specific Country They Intend To Remove Him to, and a Reasonable Period of Time – Which Plaintiffs Respectfully suggest is ten days – to file an application for relelf under, among other things, the withHHolding of removal statute and the convention against torture with respect to such country. “
