Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, alongside a coalition of migrant rights advocates, has filed a lawsuit with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of families whose loved ones were deported by the U.S. and imprisoned without due process in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.
According to the New York Times, the petition names 18 Venezuelan men, many with pending asylum claims or U.S. humanitarian protections, who have been held incommunicado for nearly two months.
“They’ve all been deported without due process, excluded from any protection of the law and are in a situation of enforced disappearance,” said Isabel C. Roby, senior staff attorney at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.
The groups are urging the commission to demand their immediate release and safe return.
Read the full article here.
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