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Venezuelans Returning Home Mistreated by Authorities
Read more: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/10/13/venezuela-abusive-treatment-returnees (Washington, DC, October 13, 2020) - Venezuelan authorities' treatment o…
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(Washington, DC, October 13, 2020) - Venezuelan authorities' treatment of approximately 100.000 citizens returning from other countries is, in many cases, abusive and likely will result in the transmission of Covid-19, Human Rights Watch and the public centers Johns Hopkins University Enhance Health and Human Rights and Humanitarian Health said today. Foreign ministers from Latin American countries, who are due to meet online in the week of October 19, 2020 as part of the Quito process, should urgently address the situation of returnees.
Tens of thousands of Venezuelans, most of whom lived in other Latin American countries, are returning to Venezuela due to the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic impact. Human Rights Watch and the Johns Hopkins Centers found overcrowded and unsanitary quarantine centers for returning people who had little access to food, water, or medical care. Some who protested the conditions were threatened with arrest. And due to delays in Covid-19 tests and an unnecessarily sophisticated test protocol, many people have been quarantined for weeks longer than recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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