Bridgetown.
A High Court Judge this morning will hear an application for a writ of habeas corpus from attorney at law David Commissiong asking that immigration detainee Raul Garcia be brought to court.
"We are asking the court to issue a writ of habeas corpus directed to the Minister responsible for Immigration and the Chief Immigration Officer, commanding them to bring the body of Raul Garcia before a judge of the Supreme Court on a stipulated date and time to enquire whether his detention his lawful," says Commissiong.
Garcia was incarcerated for 20 years for importing cocaine into Barbados and the end of his sentence, he was not releasesd because no nation would take him, Cuba his country of birth and the United States where he lived as a child, refused to accept him.
Last month , he was placed under strict detention in a house on the compound on the headquarters of the Barbados Defence Force where he is under 24 hour guard.
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