Gay Asylum Seeker Illegally Deported to Torture and Death, Mother Says
AlterNet reports that the U.S. government illegally deported a gay asylum-seeker to months of torture and death in a Honduran prison, his mother claims in court. Ana Lopez sued the United States and Immigration and Customer Enforcement for the death of her son, Nelson Javier Avila-Lopez. Lopez claims her son had a stay of deportation but ICE deported him anyway to Honduras, where he was “thrown, without formal charges, into the notorious Comayagua prison … where he suffered unspeakable torture for nearly four months . . . . ” Her son died in Comayagua prison on Valentine’s Day 2012, in a fire that killed 357 other prisoners with him, his mother says.
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