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Central African hotel prison for US deportations
The gist
Lawyers say two men deported by the US to Equatorial Guinea were arrested and beaten in a hotel-turned-detention center.
The case highlights a deportation program sending people to African countries other than their own.
How it unfolded
- Sep 12, 2026Three Latin American migrants describe being detained by ICE and expelled to Liberia, saying 'They had us chained up the whole trip'; a Venezuelan man deported to Liberia is accommodated by the government of Joseph N. Boakai in a hotel in Marshall, 50 km from Monrovia.
- Sep 16, 2026ICE deports Pietro Graza, a gay Arizona man, to Equatorial Guinea.
- Sep 18, 2026Lawyers and rights groups say two men deported by the United States to Equatorial Guinea — Ahmed Soliman, an Egyptian national, and Samson Birhane from Eritrea — were arbitrarily arrested after police covered their heads with a bag, beat them and held them at gunpoint in a hotel-turned-detention center.