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Bahamas
Urgent appeals
112. On 19 October 2004, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers regarding Rene Mendoza Banos and Jorge Luis Conde, both Cuban asylum-seekers. According to the allegations received, on 1 October 2004 the two men who are detained at the Carmichael Detention Centre were severely beaten with batons by soldiers and subjected to a mock execution, where guns were pointed at their heads.
113. Further allegations were received concerning other Haitian and Cuban detainees at
the Carmichael facility. On 9 October, a number of Haitians escaped from the centre and over
the following two days soldiers beat several Haitian detainees, apparently in retaliation for
the escape. Some detainees were seriously injured and denied medical attention. On 10
October, several Cuban detainees, including children, were forced to stand against a fence
inside the camp from 3 p.m. to 5.30 p.m., with no water, in temperatures of around 30C.
There are at least five children at the centre, age between three and nine; at least one of them
has been held at the centre for over six months. Tuberculosis is reportedly widespread among
the detainees, who are denied medical treatment and have inadequate access to food and
water. Many of the detainees have had no access to lawyers, or to the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees.
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This report has been published by Equipo Nizkor and Derechos Human Rights on July 12, 2005.