A lawyer for ten Venezuelan men sent by the U.S. government to a prison in El Salvador says the Salvadoran government denied her access to meet with her clients. Kerry Kennedy, a human rights activist who is the daughter of assassinated U.S. politician Robert F. Kennedy and niece of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, told reporters during a trip to El Salvador on Monday (28 April) that the Salvadoran government did not respect her clients' rights to meet with their lawyer. - REUTERS
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00:00Despite our clients' rights to see their attorneys, the government of El Salvador,
00:07starting with President Bukele, failed to respect those rights.
00:12And they denied us, their lawyers, access to our clients.
00:17The President of the United States has done so following the same script
00:23that President Bukele has used against his own people.
00:27The label of terrorists, the gang members, without any shred of evidence and any semblance of due process.