Amnesty Says U.S. Deportees in Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Arrested in Retaliation
Lawyers and rights groups say the men were targeted after reporting abuse, as more than 40 deportees remain at the hotel detention site.
- On Friday, September 11, Equatorial Guinean police arrested Ahmed Soliman, a deported Egyptian national, after allegedly beating him and fellow detainee Samson Birhane, who remain held at La Luna gendarmerie station without access to counsel.
- The Trump administration deported Soliman and Birhane to Equatorial Guinea under an opaque $7.5 million deal, despite U.S. immigration judges previously granting them protection from removal due to torture risks.
- While police accused the men of 'breaking a mirror,' lawyers claim the arrest is retaliation for leaking videos of abuse; White House immigration adviser Stephen Miller discussed migration issues with Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue on the same day.
- Amnesty International condemned the alleged 'violent threats' against detainees on Friday, while U.S. Representative Adelita Grijalva criticized the third-country deportations on Wednesday, stating, 'Our country is responsible for sending people out this way, period.'
- Over 40 people remain deported to Equatorial Guinea under similar agreements, yet both the U.S. State Department and the Equatorial Guinean government have not released statements regarding Soliman's case.
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Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, tied, beaten with weapons and pushed down by police officers in an isolated hotel where immigrants are being held indefinitely, according to witnesses and lawyers.
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Independent EspañolTwo men deported by the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arbitrarily detained after police covered their heads with a bag, beaten and held at gunpoint in a hotel turned into a detention centre, their lawyers and human rights organizations reported Friday.
Equatorial Guinea: Risk of torture for unlawfully detained men: Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane
On 11 September, the Equatorial Guinea authorities unlawfully arrested Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane, accusing them of “breaking a mirror” at a hotel in Malabo, where the two had been arbitrarily held since they were unlawfully removed by the US to Equatorial Guinea earlier this year. Police officers covered the two men’s heads with a […]
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