The man claimed to have served 20 years in a Salvadoran prison for the murder of a rival gang member, agents said.

Dutch murder convict Joran van der Sloot may be transferred from Peru to a notorious and vast prison complex in El Salvador, De Telegraaf reported based on information from crime journalist John van den Heuvel and a letter by the Dutchman.

A new federal court filing says Kilmar Abrego Garcia experienced "severe beatings" and "psychological torture" in a supermax prison in El Salvador.

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.

A court in El Salvador has sentenced three former military officers for the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the civil war