Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele denied Kilmar Ábrego García’s allegations that he was beaten and tortured after being mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison. In March, Ábrego García was wrongly deported to the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo,

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.

At the notorious CECOT prison, he was forced to frog-march and to kneel from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., and he was subjected to beatings and threats, his lawyers said Wednesday.