El Salvador president denies Kilmar Abrego Garcia's allegations of beatings, abuse in prison

The president of El Salvador is refuting allegations made by Kilmar Abrego Garcia -  the man whose mistaken deportation by the Trump administration has fueled a monthslong legal saga – in which he said he was beaten and subject to psychological torture while in prison in the Central American country.

President Nayib Bukele, in a post on the social media platform X, wrote that Abrego Garcia "wasn't tortured, nor did he lose weight." He included pictures and video of Abrego Garcia in a detention cell at El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT," earlier this year.

"If he'd been tortured, sleep-deprived, and starved, why does he look so well in every picture?" Bukele wrote.