Lawyers sue to keep 10 migrants outside the Guantanamo bay because others say they were abused there

The lawyers for civil rights sued the Trump administration on Saturday to prevent the transfer of 10 retained migrants to the US in the Gulf of Guantanamo, Cuba, and filed statements from men held there who said they were mistreated under conditions, that of one of them called “a living hell”.

The federal process came less than a month after the same lawyers sent to court for access At the migrants who were already detained at the naval base in Cuba, after living illegally in the US. Both cases are supported by the American Union for Civil Liberties and submitted to Washington.

Also, the lawyers filed statements translated from Spanish to English from two men who are still held at the Gulf of Guantanamo, four men took place there in February and sent back to Venezuela and a Venezuelan migrant sent back to Texas. Men said they were kept in small cells, without windows, with bright lights around the clock, preventing sleep and having inappropriate food and medical care. A man reported the suicide attempt there and two said they know about the attempts of others. The men said that the migrants were verbally abused by employees.

“It was easy to lose the will to live,” said Raul David Garcia, a former Guantanamo prisoner sent back to Venezuela. “I have been kidnapped in Mexico and at least my captors there were their name.”

Another former prisoner sent back to Venezuela, Jonathan Alejandro Alviares Armas, reported that the prisoners were sometimes refused or “tied on a chair outside our cells for several hours” as a punishment, including for protest conditions.

“Guantanamo is a living hell,” he said.

In another separate federal trial, submitted to New Mexico, a federal judge on February 9 blocked the transfer Out of three immigrants from Venezuela who took place in that state in the Gulf of Guantanamo.

Trump says that Guantanamo Bay can own thousands of “worst”

The White House and the departments of defense and internal security did not respond immediately to E -Moys on Saturday, looking for comments about the latest process. The two agencies are among the defendants.

Trump promised mass deportations of immigrants living in the US and said that Guantanamo Bay, also known as “Gitmo”, has space for up to 30,000 of them.

He also said he was planning To send “the worst” or “criminal aliens” with a high risk at the base in Cuba. The administration did not publish specific information about who is transferred, so it is not clear what crimes are accused of committing in the US and if they were convicted in court or were just charged or arrested.

At least 50 migrants have already been transferred to Guantanamo Bay, and civil rights lawyers believe that the number now can be about 200. They said it is the first time in US history that the Government has detained us -it has detained our accusations of civil immigration. For decades, the naval base has been used mainly to retain foreigners associated with the attacks of September 11, 2001.

A separate military detention center has once held 800 people, but this number dropped to 15, including 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Critics have said for years that the center is notorious for precarious conditions for prisoners. A Report 2023 From an inspector of the United Nations he said that the detainees have faced “a continuous raw, inhuman and degrading treatment”, although the US have rejected much of its criticisms.

Migrants say they were tortured or threatened before they came to the US

The 10 men involved in the last trial came to the US in 2023 or 2024, seven from Venezuela, and the others from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

The trial said that the Afghan and Pakistani migrants were running away from the Taliban, and two of the Venezuelans were tortured by the government there for their political opinions. One of the Venezuelani, Walter Estiver Salazar, said that government officials kidnapped him after refusing to follow an order to interrupt their city’s electricity.

“The officials beat me, they suffocated me, and eventually shot me,” he said. “I just survived.”

Salazar said he was convicted in the US who led under influence, “which I regret deeply”, while another of the Venezuelans said that the accusations against an internal dispute were abandoned. Male lawyers claim that many of the people who have been sent to Bay Guantanamo have no serious criminal records or even any criminal history.

Four Venezuelans said they were falsely accused of being members of the band based on their tattoos, including one who said that his tattoo is a Catholic rosary.

Transfer to Guantanamo violates constitutional law, say lawyers

Last trial claims that transfers violate men’s right to a legal process, guaranteed by the fifth amendment to the US Constitution

The process also argues that the federal law of immigration prohibits the transfer of non-Cuban migrants from the US to the Gulf of Guantanamo; that the US government has no authority to hold people outside its territory; and the naval base remains part of Cuba Legal. Transfers are also described as arbitrary.

Their first trial, submitted on February 12, said that detainees in Guantanamo bay “disappeared effectively in a black box” and could not contact lawyers or family. The Department of Internal Security said they can reach lawyers.

One of the previously detained Venezuelans, Yoiker David Severa, said he allowed a single phone to ACLU, but when he asked to talk to his family, he said “it is not possible.” A current prisoner, Tilso Ramon Gomez Lugo, said that for two weeks he was not able to communicate “with no one in the outside world” until he allowed him to make a single call to lawyers.

The process also argues that Guantanamo Bay “has no infrastructure” to own even 10 men. Garcia said that a part of the base for migrants as he known as camp 6, where he was closed, seemed “prepared at the last moment” and was not “not even finished”.

“He was frozen and I felt like the chicken caught in a incubator,” he said.

The story continues