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One of the state of emergency detainees is seeking answers after his attorney was told he had to be blindfolded to facilitate a face-to-face meeting at Teteron Barracks, Chaguaramas.

Earl Richards’ lawyers say extreme security rules there breached his right to meet privately with his attorneys.

In a letter, attorneys Criston J Williams and Aaron Lewis complained that a July 23 virtual meeting required their law firm, Quantum Legal, to hand over personal data to the Microsoft Teams software platform with no terms from the government. The next day, a face-to-face meeting was halted when five armed, masked men demanded that Richards’ counsel submit to searches, give up electronics, and wear a blindfold. They insisted all talks would take place within their hearing and could be stopped if “coded” messages were suspected.