Civilians faced attacks, abuse in joint US-Ecuador operations, HRW says

detained them and later transferred them to the Salvadoran Coast Guard”.

“I was in the hold, icing fish, when I felt the first explosion,” a crew member of the Don Maca told HRW investigators.

Meanwhile, eight crew members of the Fiorella, and the ship itself, have not been seen since January 20. The surviving crew, who had been fishing away from the continue reading …