Inside an African hotel where asylum seekers deported by the US are imprisoned
- Under a secret $7.5 million deal with the Trump administration, Equatorial Guinea's president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, has turned the family-owned Bamy Hotel into a prison for asylum seekers deported from the United States.
- Immigration lawyers say the Trump administration uses deportations to third countries as a legal loophole to indirectly force asylum seekers back to their home countries, operating within Equatorial Guinea's authoritarian system.
- Since November, at least 32 people imprisoned at the hotel have been detained; lawyers said 25 were forced to return to home countries across Africa where their lives may be in danger.
- Authorities recently deported five other people, leaving one 26-year-old East African man imprisoned after his asylum claim was rejected by Vice President Teodoro Teodorin Obiang Nguema.
- While citizens are banned from the platform, Obiang chronicles his lavish lifestyle on TikTok, while rights groups accuse the government of widespread human rights abuses despite U.S. business ties to the oil-rich nation.
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Under an opaque $7.5 million deal with the Trump administration, Equatorial Guinea's all-powerful president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, has turned a hotel owned by his family into a prison for asylum seekers deported from the United States.
Exclusive: Inside an African hotel where asylum seekers deported by the U.S. are imprisoned
At first glance, the hotel looks like any other on this tropical island off the Central African coast, with its palm tree-lined driveway, marble-floored foyer and portrait of the oil-rich country's president hanging behind a mahogany reception desk.
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Under an opaque $7.5 million deal with the Trump administration, Equatorial Guinea’s all-powerful president has turned a hotel owned by his family into a prison for asylum seekers deported from the United States. The asylum seekers' lawyers say they had…
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Inside an African hotel where asylum seekers deported by the US are imprisoned
Under an opaque $7.5 million deal with the Trump administration, Equatorial Guinea’s all-powerful president has turned a hotel owned by his family into a prison for asylum seekers deported from the United States.
At first glance, the hotel looks like anyone else on this tropical island off the Central African coast: the entrance flanked by palm trees, a lobby with marble floors and the portrait of the president of the oil-rich country hanging behind a mahogany reception counter.
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