NGO warns of short -term disappearances after transfer of migrants to El Salvador

The transfer of the United States to El Salvador de Migrantes to keep prison in a megacárcel of this country «could constitute forced disappearances of short duration», since «the arrest of these people on Salvadoran soil lacks legal basis,» warned this Friday the chrysal non -governmental organization.

The NGO explained, in a statement released today, that «in this situation the migrants are isolated, without their families receiving information about their whereabouts, legal status or state of health, at the mercy of a prison system widely denounced for violations of human rights.»

Forced disappearance is a serious violation of human rights and an international crime recognized in various conventions, Chrysal pointed out and expanded that short -term forced disappearances occur when «an authority or an actor that acts with his consent deprives a person and refuses to recognize his detention or provide information about his whereabouts, generating uncertainty about his life and integrity.»

«The principle of non -return prohibits states from transferring or expelling a person from their jurisdiction or effective control when there are reasons founded to believe that he will face serious violations of their human rights,» he said.

He indicated that affected people or their relatives can resort to mechanisms such as Habeas Corpus before Salvadoran constitutional justice or presenting a communication to the work group on forced disappearances of the United Nations.

«The transfer of people among countries, as well as their detention in conditions of total opacity, not only violates their fundamental rights, but also feels a dangerous precedent worldwide,» Cristosal warned.

The Government of El Salvador, so far and since the weekend, I have not referred to the issue, it has not provided details of how Venezuelan migrants are found that were transferred to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), where gang leaders are imprisoned.

Meanwhile, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Friday that deported and imprisoned Venezuelan migrants in El Salvador were subjected to a «very rigorous» process to verify that they were part of the Transnational Crime Band of Aragua.

«They told me that they went through a very rigorous review process and that this will continue in El Salvador,» Trump said in statements to journalists from the oval office.

«We will continue with that process (review), no doubt. We do not want to make that kind of mistake, ”added the president.

Trump thus responded to the information from relatives and lawyers of some of the more than 200 deportees, who say that migrants were not part of any criminal organization, had no background and that they were arrested for their tattoos