UN: Trinidad Forcibly Deported Venezuelan Refugees

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Monday criticized what it called the forced deportation of 82 Venezuelan asylum seekers by Trinidad and Tobago that the Caribbean country's government insisted was voluntary. The UNHCR said the people had been held in detention in Trinidad and Tobago and that they were deported on Saturday without the agency being given access to them. "The forced return of this group is of great concern," Volker Turk, UNHCR's Assistant...

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