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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

They were freed from a ‘torture prison’ in El Salvador. This is their life now

Dozens of Venezuelan men, locked up in immigration detention centers in the United States, were abruptly flown to El Salvador in the middle of the night, shackled and gang-walked to a brutal maximum-security prison, heads shaved, and stuffed into jail cells where they lived for more than five months.

They weren’t allowed to speak with families or lawyers. They never stepped foot outside.

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