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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gerald Imray

3 men deported by US are being held in an African prison without charge, lawyers say

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Three men deported by the United States to Eswatini in July have been held in a maximum-security prison in the African nation for seven weeks without charge and with no access to legal counsel despite completing criminal sentences in the U.S., their lawyers said Tuesday.

The New York-based Legal Aid Society said it was representing one of the men, Jamaican national Orville Etoria, and that he had been “inexplicably” sent to Eswatini when his home country was willing to accept him back.

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