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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kemo Cham and Mark Banchereau

Migrants deported by US to Sierra Leone risk return to countries where they fear persecution

Sierra Leone Deportations - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Asylum seekers deported by the U.S. to Sierra Leone risk being sent back to their home countries where they face persecution, according to one of their lawyers and documents seen by The Associated Press, despite prior U.S. court orders barring their deportation to those countries.

About a dozen people deported from the U.S. arrived in Sierra Leone Thursday, the second deportation flight to the country after nine West African migrants landed there last month, Erica Reilly, an attorney representing one of the migrants, said Friday.

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