Several associations denounced Thursday February 25 the "
violations of the rights
" of 70 migrants locked up by the authorities in a waiting zone in Guadeloupe, off which they were shipwrecked Monday before being rescued.
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These 70 people, Haitian, Dominican, Colombian and Indian nationals, including a pregnant woman and a child, were notified of a refusal to enter French territory and were transferred to a hotel to be locked up, said in a joint press release from four associations, including La Cimade, Anafé (national association for border assistance for foreigners) or the group of lawyers working in foreigners' law.
"
Our associations hope that the violations of the rights of the 70 castaways will be sanctioned
", they affirm, before listing: "
Difficulty or refusal of the border police to register asylum requests, family separation, imprisonment of some people in rooms whose doors are locked from the outside
”, or the inability to consult a doctor.
"
Some were able to register an asylum request but the majority of those with whom we were able to speak could not
", affirms to AFP Laure Palun, director of Anafé.
The judge of liberties and detention (JLD) must, according to associations, rule on Friday on the request for an extension of the confinement for eight additional days.
“
The role of the JLD is to verify the conditions of maintenance and respect for the rights of people in prison.
However, the right to asylum, the right to private and family life as well as the right to health are fundamental rights guaranteed by national and international texts.
These rights do not suffer, in principle, from any exception
”, write the associations.