A group of high lawyers on Saturday filed a lawsuit against Panama for detention of migrants deported from the United States, threatening to disrupt the new policy of Trump President of Migrant export from all over the world to Central America.
The lawsuit, filed against the Panama Government, before the inter -American Commission for Human Rights, the names of 10 Iranian Christian converts and 102 migrant detained at a camp near the Jungle in Panama as prosecutors, is said to have seen The New York Times.
The lawsuit claims that the United States violated the right of Iranian groups on Asylum due to religious persecution and that Panama violated domestic and international laws, such as the US Convention on Human Rights, in the detention of migrants.
The lawsuit was filed only against Panama, although one of the involved lawyers said he was planning to file a separate appeal against the US Ministry of Homeland Security this next week.
Responding to the claim for comment on the lawsuit, the spokeswoman for President Raúl Mulin from Panama, Astrid Salazar, said that the “Panaman Government” did not detention “.
They are migrants held in a fenced camp Guardy by armed Panaman police officers, and the Panaman Ministry of Security controls all access to the facility. The International Migration Organization and the UN Refugee Agency does not regularly have a campaign presence and said they are not in charge of migrants, but offer some humanitarian support, such as providing food funds.
The lawsuit filed on Saturday requires that the Commission issued an emergency command commands, saying that none of the detained migrants in the jungle camp should be deported to its country of origin.
“The Panama Government has no domestic or international authority to delay people in these circumstances,” said Ian Kysel, an associate clinical professor of law at the Cornell Law and the leading prosecutor’s deputy.
In mid -February, Trump’s administration has opened a new front in its efforts to deport millions of people by sending recently arrived migrants from all over the world to Central America. About 300 people flew in Panama And held at a hotel in Panama, including 10 Iranian converts, several children among them.
More than 100 people who did not agree to return to their country of origin were lAter switched to detention camp near Jungle Dariénwhere they stay.
Trump’s administration has since thanked Panami for helping to resolve the challenge of migration. But the arrival of deported and their detention created problems for the Government of Mr. Mulin, who agreed to take over migrants, but criticized criticism from the United Nations, activists and lawyers for human rights and lawyers who held them without criminal charges.
The Human Rights Commission is a seven -member body whose decisions relate to members, including Panama. It is thought to be used when individuals believe that their domestic legal options are exhausted or in cases where irreparable damage is immediate, and prosecutors say they need fast legal protection.
The Commission cannot say sanctions, but neglect of its decisions could come with political risks.
José Miguel Vivanco, a human rights expert in Latin America, said that if the Commission ruled in favor of the prosecutor, he thought he would fulfill Panama.
Whether the commission is to rule in favor of the prosecutor, stopping their deportations, Mr. Trump could make it difficult for the conviction of the leaders in Panama and elsewhere to take over the migrants with whom the United States do not want to deal with.
After sending migrants in Panama, Trump’s administration sent 200 migrants from Central Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe in Costa Rica, including dozens of children. As in Panami, migrants are held in a remote facility for a few hours drive from the capital.
Mr. Kysel said that similar legal actions are expected against other Latin America countries, including Costa Rica, which cooperate with Mr. Trump and accept deportation.
In both cases, Central America governments have announced that they plan to quickly deport people to their home countries. In the lawsuit, lawyers claim that for Iranian Christians, the deportation would carry “irrefutable damage” because the Iranian law stipulates that the conversion from Islam is a crime that is punishable.
“I am afraid of what will happen to me in the hands of the Panama Government,” said one of Iran, Artemide Ghasemzadeh, in the oath filed in a lawsuit. “I still want to seek asylum in the United States and follow a free life there as a Christian.”
Mrs. Ghasemzadeh, 27, who fled to Iran in December and headed from Mexico across the southern American borderThey published their temptation in media interviews. She first attracted global attention when the video was recounted that he was chopped and deported in Panama widely spreads on the net.
The Commission usually makes decisions in such cases within a few days, said Mr. Vivanco.
The lawyer of the Prosecutor’s Publishing Commission is very high, he said. But given the Iranian politics towards the transformed Christians, he thought the case had the opportunity. “I think this will attract the attention of everyone involved,” he said.
Mr. Kysel said he hoped that the lawsuit had distracted other countries from participating in Mr. Trump’s deportation plans.
“Panama and any other state in the region face legal responsibility if they receive, retain and deport asylum seekers who are summarized from the United States,” said Mr. Kysel.
The lawsuit is the result of the cooperation of lawyers and legal groups in several countries.
One of the lawyers, but Herischi, who represents Iranian Pro Bono, said he was planning to file a separate lawsuit this week against the Homeland Security Department. The lawsuit would be on behalf of Mrs. Ghasemzadeh and nine Iranian Christian converts, three children, in Panama and three Irana deported in Costa Rica.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Security has previously said that none of the migrants “said the fear of returning to their homeland at any time during processing or custody. ”
Mrs. Ghasemzadeh claims she repeatedly asked her to fulfill the paperwork for asylum, but immigration officials at the California Camp, where she was held as she was telling her This was not the time.
Mr. Herischi said that the proposal would challenge the legality of their deportation and demands as a medicine that will be allowed to apply for asylum in the United States.
