Venezuela asks the IOM and ACNUR to intervene in favor of prisoners in El Salvador

Venezuelan Chancellor Yván Gil said Thursday that they have sent communications to the general director of the International Organization for Migration (IIM), Amy Pope, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, to intervene in favor of the more than 200 migrants imprisoned in a maximum security prison in El Salvador, after being deported by the US.

EFE

These requests, according to the Venezuelan official, are added to those made last week to the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, and the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, who, he said, represent a system that «must respond» to what Caracas denounces as a «kidnapping.»

«(They have been in silence for 19 days, I imagine that they are preparing a good document, it is what I believe, sincerely, I imagine that they are preparing a dense document where they are going to touch all the edges of the violations that are being committed to migrants and human rights at this time,» he said.

The Foreign headline said that his country will continue to demand a pronouncement, being Venezuela member of that system, so «the bureaucrats who are there have to assume their role» and «cannot remain silent.»

On Wednesday, Gil urged the «international system» to «put on the pants» and defend that group of 200 migrants, who, he denounced, «all their rights are violated» and «they are suffering in those Nazi -style concentration camps in El Salvador.»

These people are detained at the Center for Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) -a megacárcel symbol of the so -called war against gangs that the government of Salvadoran President, Nayib Bukele, drives under an exception regime -where they were sent by the US Washington.

The attorney general, Tarek William Saab, announced on Tuesday that he will send a letter to Türk to demand the release of these people, as well as to demand that the issue of migrants be «emergency» in the United Nations human rights instances.