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Cambodian Deported by US Faced 'Misery' in Eswatini Prison
He said he was allowed outdoors for only 15 minutes a day and given one weekly phone call at the Eswatini jail.
- Cambodian refugee Pheap Rom has been repatriated to Phnom Penh in late March after months of detention in Eswatini under a U.S. deportation program.
- A U.S. permanent resident since 1985, Rom was swept up in a Trump administration scheme where Eswatini agreed to accept up to 160 deportees in exchange for US$5.1 million.
- At the Matsapha Correctional Centre, Rom said detainees "went through misery," allowed outdoors for only 15 minutes a day, while lawyer Tin Thanh Nguyen noted authorities registered him for deportation to Thailand.
- Now in Phnom Penh, Rom said he is "getting used to the freedom" and hopes to find work while staying in touch with relatives in the United States.
- Rights advocates describe the deportation program as akin to "human trafficking," with around 20 men deported to Eswatini under the opaque Trump administration initiative.
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'I didn't understand': Cambodian man shocked after US deportation, jailed in Eswatini
PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian refugee long-settled in the United States, ex-convict Pheap Rom, remains bewildered at how he wound up behind bars in the African nation of Eswatini for months after being swept up in Donald Trump’s deportation blitz.
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Cambodian deported by US faced 'misery' in Eswatini prison
A Cambodian refugee long-settled in the United States, ex-convict Pheap Rom, remains bewildered at how he wound up behind bars in the African nation of Eswatini for months after being swept up in Donald Trump's deportation blitz.
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