Kilmar Abrego García, wrongly deported to El Salvador, says he was beaten and “psychologically tortured”

“Kilmar Abrego García suffered 'savage beatings' and 'psychological torture' in a notorious high-security prison in El Salvador after being deported by the Trump administration, according to court filings,” USA Today reports .

The 30-year-old Salvadoran, who lives in Maryland and is married to an American woman, was wrongly deported on March 15, accused of gang membership, before being finally sent back to the United States , where he was charged with migrant smuggling . He has pleaded not guilty.

The case of Kilmar Abrego García, who had a protective order prohibiting his deportation from the United States, ended up becoming a symbol of the errors of Donald Trump's immigration policy and reached the Supreme Court , which ruled in his favor.

The documents filed Wednesday, July 2, by his lawyers constitute "a rare account of the notorious El Salvador prison where the Trump administration deported 261 Venezuelan and Salvadoran migrants in March," notes The Washington Post . The migrants, according to the documents, were beaten and "forced to kneel for nine consecutive hours upon arrival."

"The world saw part of this arrival in a highly edited video posted on social media by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele ," but this is the first time that Kilmar Abrego García's version has been made public, the newspaper points out.

“Kilmar Abrego García was kicked in the legs and beaten with wooden batons […] according to court documents. He was allegedly held in an overcrowded, windowless cell, brightly lit at all hours, while guards, having concluded he was not a seasoned gang member, threatened to place him with actual gang members who would ‘rip him to pieces.’ ”

Sleep deprivation, a diet so poor that he reportedly lost 14 kilos in two weeks, and a lack of access to sanitation are also among the conditions denounced by Kilmar Abrego García, currently detained in a Tennessee prison, according to the Washington Post.