Report by the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Theo van Boven


Trinidad and Tobago

Urgent appeals

1748. On 4 May 2004, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants regarding John Kromah, Emanuel Kinde Hamon, Samuel Keiju, Francis Imkoomah, Colins Andor, Emanuel Sartons, George Domdree, seven Liberian nationals. According to the allegations received, they requested political asylum at a police station in Port of Spain, on 21 April 2004, claiming that they had left Liberia for fear of being killed. It is alleged that they were instead arrested under the Immigration Act on suspicion of being ‘prohibited immigrants’, and are being held incommunicado in poor conditions in Golden Grove Prison. It is reported that the cells measuring two by three metres, house 16 prisoners each, and the supply of food, which is said to be of very poor quality, and water, is irregular. The seven men are being detained alongside other convicted and remanded prisoners. They have been denied access to lawyers and to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. It has not been confirmed by the relevant authorities when they would appear before a court and when or if they would be granted legal assistance.

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