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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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This report has been published by Equipo Nizkor and Derechos Human Rights on July 27, 2005.