Human Rights Groups File Emergency Petition Over Trump Expulsions To Salvadoran Mega-Prison
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On behalf of over a dozen families, the groups appealed Friday to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Human rights groups writing on behalf of over a dozen families filed an emergency petition with an inter-American human rights commission Friday, urging the commission to pursue the immediate release of hundreds of people the United States has sent to an infamous mega-prison in El Salvador without charge or trial.
The filing centered on U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration sending at least 288 men to El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, since mid-March. The groups called for the release of the detained Venezuelan and Salvadoran migrants to the United States. Many of the migrants had open U.S. asylum cases and other protections and were not given due process before being condemned by Trump to potential life imprisonment in one of the hemisphere’s most notorious prison systems.
“I knew that this kind of thing was happening in Venezuela, sending innocent people to a detention center without a trial,” the partner of one of the CECOT detainees, identified by her initials DCNP, said in a press release accompanying Friday’s filing.
“I find it almost unbelievable to see this happening in the United States and in El Salvador with [my partner].”
Friday’s request sought emergency “precautionary measures,” and was sent to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of all individuals transferred by the United States to CECOT since mid-March and their families. It listed declarations from family members of 18 individuals who the United States transferred to CECOT.
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