In a new lawsuit filed last week, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father illegally deported in March by the Trump administration, alleges he was subjected to starvation, severe beatings, and sleep deprivation inside El Salvador’s US-backed CECOT prison,

President Nayib Bukele, in a post on the social media platform X, wrote that Kilmar Abrego Garcia "wasn't tortured, nor did he lose weight," during his stint at a notorious El Salvador prison.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man legally residing in the US state of Maryland, whom the Trump administration mistakenly deported in a high-profile case in March, was severely beaten and subjected to psychological torture in prison there,