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Jeff Ernst in Tegucigalpa and agencies

US flies 177 deportees from Guantánamo to Honduras en route to Venezuela

Two shackled men are accompanied by uniformed military personnel to a large plane.
Detainees are boarded onto a US military aircraft to carry them to a detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. Photograph: DHS/Reuters

The US government has flown 177 deportees from Guantánamo Bay to Honduras, from where they are set to be transferred on to Venezuela, apparently emptying the military facility of migrant detainees.

The move on Thursday came days after human rights lawyers filed a lawsuit seeking access to dozens of people who had been held at the US naval base.

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