The Trump administration has been accused of wilful complicity in the torture and abuse of over 250 Venezuelans who were deported from the US to El Salvador. Human Rights Watch and Cristosal, a group investigating violations in Central America, have reported that conditions at El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) violate the UN's standard minimal rules for the treatment of prisoners.
The report alleges that detainees were subjected to "constant beatings" as well as other forms of ill treatment, including cases of sexual violence. The victims also experienced lengthy incommunicado detention and inadequate food supplies.
It has been claimed that just 3% of the deported Venezuelans had been convicted in the US of a violent crime, contradicting the administration's claim that they were involved with an organized crime gang.
The Trump administration's decision to deport the detainees to El Salvador has been widely criticized as a human rights abuse. The US government has been accused of turning a blind eye to the mistreatment and abuse of these individuals.
The report alleges that detainees were subjected to "constant beatings" as well as other forms of ill treatment, including cases of sexual violence. The victims also experienced lengthy incommunicado detention and inadequate food supplies.
It has been claimed that just 3% of the deported Venezuelans had been convicted in the US of a violent crime, contradicting the administration's claim that they were involved with an organized crime gang.
The Trump administration's decision to deport the detainees to El Salvador has been widely criticized as a human rights abuse. The US government has been accused of turning a blind eye to the mistreatment and abuse of these individuals.
It's absolutely shocking that those deported from the US are being subjected to such cruel conditions in El Salvador. The idea that just 3% were involved with a violent crime is pretty clear evidence of a gross abuse of power and disregard for human rights. It's like they say: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." 
this is so messed up, 250 people get deported to a place where they're basically treated like animals & its totally unacceptable... I mean come on, just because someone's from Venezuela doesn't make them involved in any crime... it's all about the politics & turning a blind eye to human rights isn't cool at all 
like, 250 ppl tortured and abused in el salvador? that's straight outta a horror movie! 
i cant even imagine how scary it must be for those ppl to be held against their will with no food or water or anything. and the beatings?! constant beatings?! 
thats just sickening.
i mean, cant we just let ppl go if we dont think they did anything wrong? its not like we gotta lock them up forever or somethin.
. And to think that only 3% of them had even been convicted of a crime... it just seems like a bunch of folks being punished for a system that's already messed up 
. It's one thing to enforce laws, but another thing entirely to condone human rights abuses 
We need to hold our leaders accountable for this kind of stuff.
Not when we're talking about human rights here. It's just not right that these people are being treated like this.
That's just not cool, guys. We need to speak out against this stuff and demand better for our fellow humans.
. And can we even get over the fact that only 3% of them were convicted of a crime in the US? That's just cherry-picking info 
. The real issue here is the mistreatment and abuse, plain and simple 
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. This report from Human Rights Watch and Cristosal needs to be taken super seriously, we can't ignore the suffering of others 
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