Brazil condemns handcuffing of refugees on trip from United States

By Luciana Magalhaes

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian authorities required that united state representatives get rid of manacles from a team of refugees that were flown to the South American nation on Friday, with a famous preacher in President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s federal government calling the method “blatant disrespect” for the civil liberties of his fellow-countrymans.

Federal authorities, acting under the guidelines of Brazilian Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski, fulfilled the trip after it made an unforeseen touchdown in the Amazonian city of Manaus because of technological issues, the Brazilian federal government claimed in a declaration on Saturday.

The aircraft, which was lugging 88 Brazilian guests, 16 united state safety representatives, and 8 team participants, had actually been initially arranged to get here in Belo Horizonte in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, the declaration claimed.

The manacles were gotten rid of from the guests after the treatment of the Brazilian authorities, the federal government claimed.

After he was educated of the case, Lula got that the guests be flown aboard a Brazilian Air Force aircraft to their last location, guaranteeing they can finish their trip with “dignity and safety,” according to a Brazilian Justice Ministry declaration.

The trip was the 2nd this year from the united state lugging undocumented travelers that had actually been deported back to Brazil and the very first considering that united state President Donald Trump’s launch on Monday, according to Brazil’s Justice Ministry and government authorities.

The Trump management has actually embarked on a sweeping migration suppression, with the Republican head of state pledging to utilize mass expulsions to get rid of undocumented travelers in the united state

The use manacles and various other restrictions on travelers being deported on trips from the united state to Brazil has actually mixed dispute in the South American country. Conservative previous President Jair Bolsonaro, a Trump ally, additionally required a stop to the method.

Officials of the UNITED STATE Department of Homeland Security and UNITED STATE Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not quickly react to ask for remark.

(Additional coverage by Ted Hesson and Gabriel Araujo; Editing by Paul Simao)