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The following special report was done by the Center For Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center who allege that Cameroonian asylum seekers are being forced out of the country back into politically hazardous situations on Death Flight deportations.
Civil rights attorneys today submitted a pair of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the federal government seeking information on the government’s use of force, including the use of pepper spray, to coerce Cameroonian asylum seekers in custody to sign their own deportation paperwork and the subsequent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation flights to Cameroon that occurred in the waning days of the Trump administration.
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
February 2, 2021, Washington, D.C. – Today, more than a hundred non-governmental organizations joined a letter led by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Center for Victims of Torture, urging President Joe Biden to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and end indefinite military detention. The letter is signed by organizations ranging from those working to end anti-Muslim discrimination and torture to immigrant rights organizations and organizations working broadly on civil rights, civil liberties, and racial justice at the national and local level. It emphasizes the devastating and ongoing consequences of the prison, including the effect of a post-9/11 national security framework on domestic racial justice struggles and efforts to end police violence. The letter reads, in part:
Repeal of Trump s Muslim ban offers new hope to frustrated immigrants and long-suffering families
Kareem Fahim, Durrie Bouscaren and Louisa Loveluck, The Washington Post
Jan. 23, 2021
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President Biden picks up a pen in the Oval Office to sign a raft of executive orders, including one that repealed his predecessor s Muslim travel ban, on Jan. 20.Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford.
ISTANBUL - Danah Harbi went to another doctor s appointment this week without her fiance, as she has for most of her six-month pregnancy, as she has for all manner of appointments and engagements during their long, forced separation. Maybe they will be together when the child is born this spring, but the last few years have been cruel and capricious, and the future has been hard to predict.