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Deported Venezuelan man files abuse complaint against the US government

Families of migrants imprisoned in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center hold a protest in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 15 [Maxwell Briceno/Reuters]

A Venezuelan man deported from the United States has issued a complaint against the administration of President Donald Trump, saying he was wrongfully sent to a Salvadoran prison where he suffered beatings and other forms of abuse.

Thursday’s complaint is the first of its kind from one of the more than 250 Venezuelan men sent in March to the Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT), a maximum-security prison in El Salvador known for human rights abuses.

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