US: court rules deportation of HIV-positive Dominican does not violate convention against torture.
The US District Court for New York has upheld a tribunal decision deporting an HIV-positive Dominican national. The court held that the tribunal did not err in finding that Rogelio Reyes-Sanchez had failed to show that he would more likely than not be subject to torture if deported. The court agreed that evidence suggesting that people living with HIV/AIDS may receive substandard medical treatment from public and private hospitals in the Dominican Republic di not constitute evidence of torture.
Marceau
Emmanuelle
E
D004293:Dominican Republic / Q000208:ethnology; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006679:HIV Seropositivity; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009518:New York; D014481:United States