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Four-Year-Old Venezuelan Boy with Multiple Disabilities Denied Protection in Iceland

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“From my experience, I’ve been working in this field for many years, and I’ve never worked for someone who is in such poor health and also very disabled,” says Jón Sigurðsson, who is representing a Venezuelan asylum seeker named Leidy Díaz and her two children. She has a daughter, Rachell, who is 13, and a son, Elian, who is four. Jón is referring to Leidy’s son, who is multi-disabled, with spina bifida and hydrocephalus, and uses a wheelchair. …
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“From my experience, I’ve been working in this field for many years, and I’ve never worked for someone who is in such poor health and also very disabled,” says Jón Sigurðsson, who is representing a Venezuelan asylum seeker named Leidy Díaz and her two children. She has a daughter, Rachell, who is 13, and a son, Elian, who is four. Jón is referring to Leidy’s son, who is multi-disabled, with spina bifida and hydrocephalus, and uses a wheelchair. …

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RÚV broke the news in on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.
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