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“They kept hitting me in the stomach, and when I tried to breathe, I started to choke on the blood. My cellmates shouted for help, saying they were killing us, but the officers said they just wanted to make us suffer.”
The harrowing testimony of Daniel B* is among dozens collected by human rights groups since the 252 Venezuelan migrants were repatriated from one of El Salvador’s most notorious prisons in July this year.
Five months earlier, they had been deported there from the US as part of Donald Trump’s much-publicised migration crackdown.
El Salvador’s maximum security Centro de Confi
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