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LBGT activist challenging immigration laws completes first stage before CCJCCJ1:09 pm, Wed November 13, 2013
Maurice Tomlinson
Maurice Tomlinsom, a Jamaican gay rights activist, has completed the first stage of his challenge of certain immigration laws in Belize and Trinidad & Tobago. He is challenging them on the basis that they restricted his free movement as a CARICOM national under the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas.
In order to proceed, he must get special permission from the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to bring the action as a CARICOM citizen, as treaty issues are usually adjudicated between states.
The CCJ had set aside Tuesday and Wednesday to hear his application, but the process was completed on Tuesday. The decision will be made public later.
Tomlinson is claiming that there are particular immigration laws of Belize as well as Trinidad & Tobago which bar homosexuals from entering either country.
These provisions, he argues, constitute a breach of the freedom of movement provisions of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas.
LBGT activist challenging immigration laws completes first stage before CCJCCJ1:09 pm, Wed November 13, 2013
Maurice Tomlinson
Maurice Tomlinsom, a Jamaican gay rights activist, has completed the first stage of his challenge of certain immigration laws in Belize and Trinidad & Tobago. He is challenging them on the basis that they restricted his free movement as a CARICOM national under the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas.
In order to proceed, he must get special permission from the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to bring the action as a CARICOM citizen, as treaty issues are usually adjudicated between states.
The CCJ had set aside Tuesday and Wednesday to hear his application, but the process was completed on Tuesday. The decision will be made public later.
Tomlinson is claiming that there are particular immigration laws of Belize as well as Trinidad & Tobago which bar homosexuals from entering either country.
These provisions, he argues, constitute a breach of the freedom of movement provisions of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas.
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