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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has pleaded guilty to Dominican Republic from illegal and arbitrary detentions and summary expulsions of 26 Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian origin undocumented immigrants in 1999 and 2000.

In a ruling released Wednesday in San Jose, Costa Rica, home of the Court, the maximum continental human rights court also determined that a Dominican constitutional order issued in 2013 and 200,000 people deprived of their citizenship violates the "right to nationality. "

"Give a try to foreign persons born in Dominican territory whose parents are foreigners in irregular situation" is "discrimination" violates "the right to equality before the law" set in the American human rights instruments, the document stresses of the Court.

The Court "determine the existence, at least for a period of about a decade after 1990, a systematic pattern of expulsions, including through collective acts of Haitians and people of Haitian descent, which reflects a discriminatory conception."

The events of 1999 and 2000 were reported "unfairly and without access to an effective remedy" the rights of the victims, he said. The Dominican Republic is "internationally responsible" for violating rights of families with discriminatory practices, expulsions and denationalization policies, among others, he said.

They were also violated the rights of 15 "victims' children" because the State "failed to take into account their interests" and is responsible for the violation of those rights at the expense of four children born on Dominican soil, but " had not been registered or had documentation proving their identity and nationality. "

"The sentence is very important in protecting the rights progress' for those families," but also for thousands of people "in the Dominican, Mexican lawyer Francisco Quintana, director for North America, the Caribbean and the Andean region of said Center for Justice and International Law nonstate (Cejil), American entity of human rights.

The Dominican Republic was sentenced to adopt acts "repair" and that "within a reasonable time, take all necessary steps to rescind any rule, practice or decision which deprived arbitrarily to a person of the enjoyment of the right steps to nationality if born in the Dominican Republic and had no cash and immediate access to someone else. "