The High Court judge has tempo¬rarily blocked the Immigration Division from deporting five (5) Cameroonians who arrived in this country last November and were expected to be deported early yesterday morning.
• Late on Tuesday night, Justice Carol Gobin granted the application in chamber, without an actual hearing taking place which restricted the Immigration Division from deporting the group who were carded to be placed on a Copa airline flight around 3.37am yesterday.
• The injunctive action was filed on behalf of the asylum seekers by attorneys Om Lalla, Ilisha Manerikar and Aaron Mahabir who claimed that if the group were sent back to their native land, they would be murdered by state forces.
• Attorney Lalla is quoted as saying that the five people were recently interviewed by officials from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and were deemed eligible last week to receive refugee status.
• According to the attorneys in their application, the Immi¬gration Department was aware of this, was ignoring the process of the UNHCR and took the decision to have the group sent back to Cameroon nonetheless.
