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The Guardian - US
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José Olivares in New York

Venezuelan men sue aviation firms who flew them to notorious Salvadorian jail

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The Cecot prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, where the Venezuelans deported from the US were imprisoned. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images

Venezuelan men sent last year to a notorious Salvadorian terrorism prison by the Trump administration are suing the US aviation companies that transported them there.

A lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Washington DC accuses the companies CSI Aviation and GlobalX of violating the Venezuelans’ civil rights, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence and other violations, for their role in flying the three planes that took the men to El Salvador.

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