Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern
Forced Disappearances of Salvadoran Deportees in El Salvador's Prison System
Systematic forced disappearances of Salvadoran nationals deported from the US, held incommunicado in Salvadoran prisons including CECOT with no access to lawyers, families, or courts. The US is accused of breaching non-refoulement by deporting people to a system that human rights groups document as practising enforced disappearance. Amnesty International has said El Salvador's state-of-exception abuses could amount to crimes against humanity.