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"Venezuelan men sent last year to a notorious Salvadorian terrorism prison by
the Trump administration are suing the US aviation companies that transported
them there.
A lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Washington DC accuses the
companies CSI Aviation and GlobalX of violating the Venezuelans’ civil rights,
false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence
and other violations, for their role in flying the three planes that took the
men to El Salvador.
CSI and GlobalX “went to great lengths” to undertake the “rendition flights” to
El Salvador, “in concert with the US government, in flagrant violation of US
and international law”, the lawsuit reads.
Last year, in March, the Trump administration expelled more than 230 Venezuelan
men held in US immigration custody to El Salvador, where they were detained for
four months in a maximum security terrorism prison and tortured.
The lawsuit accuses CSI and GlobalX of deliberately transporting the men to El
Salvador, despite a federal judge ordering the flights to return and despite
knowing they would probably be tortured inside the country’s Terrorism
Confinement Center (known as “Cecot” by its acronym in Spanish).
Without CSI and GlobalX’s complicity, “neither Plaintiffs nor the Class would
have been rendered to CECOT”, the lawsuit reads.
The suit was filed by a team of human rights attorneys on 17 July and is being
reported first by the
Guardian. It is one of the latest attempts by rights
groups to hold private contractors accountable for their role in alleged abuses
stemming from the administration’s aggressive anti-immigrant crackdown."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
