AMNESTY HITS T&T ON DEPORTATION OF VENES

AMNESTY International, the respected human rights organisation, has criticised the Rowley Government for the deportation of Venezuelan migrants.

Erika Guevara-Rosas, the group’s Americas Director, said the recent measures taken by the Government are “extremely alarming.”

Ms. Guevara-Rosas called for the upholding of the rights of asylum seekers and migrants.

She said that T&T must respect its “legal commitments and international human rights law…”

The director said: “It is imperative that the deportation of those facing the risk of persecution and human rights violations in their places of origin be halted immediately.”

Ms. Guevara-Rosas noted that “the human rights crisis and complex humanitarian emergency in Venezuela are of such a magnitude that 25 per cent of the nation’s population has been forced to leave the country in the last few years…”

She stressed that no one should be subjected to mass expulsions.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has also protested the T&T Government’s deportation of Venezuelan migrants.

Meanwhile, Amnesty International has revealed that the Venezuelan Nicholas Maduro Government is continuing its “policy of repression.”

The organisation reported that there is “unjust detention of teachers, trade unionists, and human rights defenders.”

There is also “the arbitrary nature of the justice system” and “inhumane detention conditions.”

Nine people were detained for their political activism, it was revealed.

The “rights to life, liberty and protection from harm” are jeopardised, Amnesty International said.