Jamaican national deported by the US to Eswatini repatriated

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National deported by the US to Eswatini repatriated

JAMAICA
A Jamaican man who was among five migrants deported by the United States to Eswatini in Africa has been repatriated to his home country, Eswatini authorities and his lawyers said.
Orville Etoria, 62, was held in a maximumsecurity prison in Eswatini for more than two months without charges or access to legal counsel, his lawyers said Tuesday. They accused the US of deporting him there unlawfully in mid-July.
The lawyers had said US officials sent him to the southern African nation under the Trump administration's third-country deportation programme even though Jamaica was willing to take him back. They alleged Etoria and the fourother men were then repeatedly denied visits by a lawyer while they were held at the prison.
Etoria's lawyers at the New York-based Legal Aid Society confirmed his repatriation, saying in a statement that he had been arbitrarily detained in Eswatini. The case was "a grave injustice that underscores the dangers of the US government's continued third-country deportations," the statement said.
The US has sent more than 30 deportees to at least four African countries since July under the new programme: South Sudan, Eswatini, Rwanda and Ghana. It has an agreement with another Africa nation, Uganda, though no deportations there have been announced yet. Rwanda said it has ultimately agreed to receive up to 250 deportees.
Etoria was repatriated on Sunday with the assistance of the United Nations' International Organisation for Migration, Thabile Mdluli, the Eswatini government's acting spokesperson, said in a statement.
(Associated Press)

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Note : Eswatini was formerly called Swaziland.

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