UN warns U.S. deportations of Venezuelans to El Salvador
UN warns U.S. deportations of Venezuelans to El Salvador 'raising huge human rights concerns'
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UN warns U.S. deportations of Venezuelans to El Salvador 'raising huge human rights concerns'
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00:00The United Nations Human Rights Officers warned Tuesday that the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants from the U.S. to El Salvador is raising huge human rights concerns.
00:12This comes after recent deportation by the U.S. government in March, where more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants were alleged to have been deported to El Salvador.
00:20The U.N. Human Rights Office has information from family members and lawyers regarding more than 100 Venezuelans believed to be held in Secot.
00:31These reports indicate that many of the detainees were not informed of the U.S. government's intention to deport them to be held in a third country,
00:40that many did not have access to a lawyer, and that they were effectively unable to challenge the lawfulness of their removal before being flown out of the U.S.
00:48The immigrants were taken to the notorious Secot facility, the centerpiece of El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's push to pacify his once-violence-wrecked country through top police measures and limits on basic rights.
00:59This situation raises serious concerns regarding a wide array of rights that are fundamental to both U.S. and international law.
01:08Rights to due process, to be protected from arbitrary detention, to equality before the law,
01:15to be protected from exposure to torture or other irreparable harm in other states, and to an effective remedy.
01:22Meanwhile, the international human rights organizations on Friday found a lawsuit with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights,
01:30asking that the Commission order El Salvador's government to release the Venezuelans.
01:34the seized prisoners of the Russian rights Coordinator
01:46to be protected from the famous U.S. einer Kyler