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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gerald Imray

Rights group calls for urgent action for 5 men deported by US and held in Eswatini without charges

Eswatini US Deportees - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

International rights group Amnesty International called Friday for urgent action from authorities in the African nation of Eswatini to give five men deported there by the United States access to lawyers and explain why they've been held in a maximum-security prison for two months without charges.

Amnesty said it is raising the cases of the men from Jamaica, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and Yemen, who in mid-July were sent to the southern African nation with a reputation for rights abuses, as part of the Trump administration's third-country deportation program.

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