El Salvador

Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from US immigration detention

After his release, he was ordered to check in with immigration authorities on Friday morning but a judge blocked them from re-detaining him.

The Salvadoran has been at the heart of an immigration row since he was mistakenly deported in March.

The wartime Alien Enemies Act has been controversially used to deport Venezuelans to a mega-jail in El Salvador.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is taken into custody in Baltimore as his lawyers say he may be sent to Uganda.

His lawyers accuse the government of trying to "coerce" him to plead guilty by threatening to deport him "halfway across the world".

The El Salvadoran was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration but was brought back to face human smuggling charges.

The victim's mother told the court: "The brutality of her murder will haunt us for the rest of our lives."

The reforms will extend term times to six years, while the next election will be brought forward to 2027.

Four men deported from the US to a notorious facility in El Salvador tell the BBC after their release they were mistreated.

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