February 04, 2021 - 9:32 PM
SAN DIEGO - The current head of the U.S. Border Patrol was part of an effort to shield agents following the 2010 death of a man who was repeatedly shocked with a stun gun while in custody after trying to cross the border from Mexico into California, according to a filing in an international human rights case.
The document made public Thursday involves the death of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, 42. He was beaten with batons and shocked several times as he lay handcuffed on the ground at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego.
Hernandez suffered five broken ribs, brain damage and other injuries, according to court documents, and died several days later at a hospital.
Court filings in international case alleges cover-up in 2010 San Ysidro border death
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The 2010 death of a man at the hands of federal agents at the San Ysidro Port of Entry resulted in an alleged cover-up involving destruction of evidence and falsification of reports, according to court filings released Thursday by attorneys representing the victim s family.
The testimony submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights includes statements from three former Department of Homeland Security officials who allege border officials obstructed investigations into the death of Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas, 42, who was struck with batons and repeatedly shocked with an electric stun gun while he was prone and shackled at the San Diego border-crossing facility on May 28, 2010. He died
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – The 2010 death of a man at the hands of federal agents at the San Ysidro Port of Entry resulted in an alleged cover-up involving destruction of evidence and falsification of reports, according to court filings released Thursday by attorneys representing the victim’s family.
The testimony submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights includes statements from three former Department of Homeland Security officials who allege border officials obstructed investigations into the death of Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas, 42, who was struck with batons and repeatedly shocked with an electric stun gun while he was prone and shackled at the San Diego border-crossing facility on May 28, 2010. He died days later at a hospital.
Guam: UNPO petition highlights violations of right to self-determinaton of CHamoru People
On 18 December 2020, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and a leading campaigner for the right to self-determination of the CHamoru people of Guam, Hope Alvarez Cristobal, filed a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights alleging systematic violation of the right to self-determination of the CHamoru people by the government of the United States of America. At the heart of the petition was the refusal of the US federal courts to allow a non-binding referendum of the native inhabitants of Guam on their status.
Guam is currently a U.S.-administered non-self-governing territory, whose decolonization process has been obstructed for over a century in violation of international law. Inhabited for over 3,500 years by the indigenous CHamoru people, Guam’s native inhabitants have suffered numerous harms since the United States took colonial control, including
More than 100 Chilean women pregnant due to negligence, abortion impediments 3 minutes read
By Patricia Nieto
Santiago, Feb 4 (efe-epa).- Estefany Cavieres, 28, is quite familiar with the signs of pregnancy. Your abdomen and your breasts hurt, you feel nauseous and tired. So, when she felt those feelings, she was sure: she was one of the 111 Chilean women who had gotten pregnant because of defective birth control pills.
“One day they called me from my medical center to tell me, there had been some birth control pills lots that were bad, but my pills didn’t match those boxes and I wasn’t worried,” the young woman told EFE, adding that she had been using birth control pills administered by public hospitals for about three months.