Deportation with a torture break. Migrants from Venezuela were imprisoned for terrorists

Venezuela authorities claim that migrants, sent to this country as part of the exchange of prisoners from the USA, were tortured at the Prison in Salvador. According to President Salvador Nayib Bukeli, the Caracas government is nervous because it lost American hostages.

The case concerns 252 Venezuelans, which in March the US authorities deported to Salvador in controversial circumstances, where they were in a bad fame for Cecot terrorists. Last week they were sent to Venezuela in exchange for 10 Americans imprisoned there.

The Prosecutor General of Venezuela Tarek Saab said that the migrants talked about violating human rights in the Salvador prison. He assessed that the prisoners experienced there “systematic torture”, including sexual harassment and beating, and they were given rotten food.

The prosecutor added that he initiated an investigation into torture against the President of Salvador as well as the Minister of Justice Gustavo Villatoro and the head of the Prison Service Osiris Luna Luna Mezie. He called international tribunals to take similar actions.

Meanwhile, the investigation of the International Criminal Court (MTK) is currently underway against the government of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. He is accused of torturing prisoners and denying them access to lawyers.

Bukele responded to the charges of Saab on the X. Venezuelan authorities “shout and are furious, but not because they do not agree with the treatment of (deported), but because they realized that they no longer have hostages from the most powerful country in the world,” he said, referring to released Americans.

The deportation of Venezuelans from the USA was controversial because the administration of President Donald Trump justified it with the regulations not used since World War II, allowing the citizens of state citizens to be expelled from the country with whom the US is waging war. The deported ones were described as members of the TREA de Aragua gang, but no evidence was presented. (PAP)

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