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The Guardian - UK
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Rachel Savage in Johannesburg

Lawyers say men deported by US to Eswatini are being imprisoned illegally

A sign reading 'Welcome to Matsapha correctional complex' stands at the entrance to the Eswatini prison, surrounded by wire and steel fences
The US deportees are being held at Matsapha correctional complex in Eswatini Photograph: AP

Lawyers for five men deported by the US to Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, said they are being denied proper access to their clients, who they said are being imprisoned illegally.

The men from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba have criminal convictions, but had all served their sentences and been released in the US, their lawyers said. The US deported them to the small southern African country without warning in July, claiming they were “depraved monsters”.

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