According to multiple accounts, detainees were threatened, choked, beaten, pepper-sprayed and threatened with more violence to make them sign.
And they were being subjected to threats of deportation, often accompanied by physical abuse.”.
“We know that the US government is deporting key witnesses in an effort to silence survivors and absolve Ice of legal liability.”.
The Trump administration cut the country’s trade privileges at the beginning of this year because of the persistent abuses.
As for the others, the lawyer Evaristus Nkongchu said: “We have no knowledge of what happened to those that were deported.
Detainees and their lawyers have been told there will be another deportation flight in the coming days, possibly as early as Friday.
Another detainee, known as DF, said that he was ordered to sign his deportation order by an Ice agent on 28 September. »