The Jano Sikse Frontier Network (RFJS) for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights, complained yesterday, Monday 10 June, that so far this year the Migration authorities have deported more than 3,334 Haitian immigrants.
They pointed to what they describe as human rights violations, including not respecting the protocols signed by the Dominican and Haitian authorities that state that repatriations should not be carried out after 6pm.
According to a press release, the latest mass deportation took place on Sunday, June 9, at Comendador on the border in Elias Pina province when 91 people, 81 men and 10 women, were abandoned to their fate in no-man’s-land between the two border posts.
They went on to say that the deportees were held for three days in Haina and not only included Haitians but three people from Sri Lanka, and who were left with the rest of the group on the other side of the border with Haiti, more than 15,000 kilometers from home.
RFJS highlighted that in most cases, the immigrants have no chance to complain about or appeal against their deportation orders, and they called on the government to put an end to these mass expulsions and the inhumane treatment to which they are subjected during repatriation.
www.hoy.com.do/provincias/2013/6/10/484440/Denuncian-masiva-deportacion-ilegal-de-inmigrantes-haitianos