Cameroonian asylum-seekers warned in late 2020 that if they were deported from the United States, as was imminently scheduled, they would be imprisoned and abused by their government back home.
Attorneys and other advocates called on the Trump administration to halt deportation flights to the country, where rampant human rights abuses had been documented. But, in October and November of that year, the planes took off as planned.
A Human Rights Watch report published Thursday has confirmed what many predicted — the United States deported people on those flights to serious harm at the hands of the Cameroonian government.
