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El Salvador Denies Lawyer Access to Venezuelans Deported by U.S. to Notorious Prison

HeadlineApr 29, 2025

A U.S. lawyer representing 10 Venezuelan men deported without due process to El Salvador by the Trump administration says she was denied access to her clients at the notorious CECOT prison. Kerry Kennedy said from San Salvador on Monday she’d also hoped to document human rights abuses inside the prison.

Kerry Kennedy: “The president of the United States has done so following the same script that President Bukele has used against his own people, the label of terrorists, the gang members, without any shred of evidence and any semblance of due process.”

Kerry Kennedy is a sister of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the daughter of the assassinated former attorney general and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.

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