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“Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again”: U.S. Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Imprisoned

Lawyers say deportees were beaten and detained after speaking out, as questions grow over how the $7.5 million payment was used.

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Two men deported from the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arrested by local police forces and transferred to a prison earlier this month, in apparent retaliation for speaking out about conditions they faced in the Central African country. Samson Birhane, who is from Eritrea, and Ahmed Soliman, a gay asylum seeker from Egypt, were both deported by the Trump administration despite U.S. immigration courts granting them protections. On September 11, police forces arrived at Hotel Bamy in the
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maravipost.com broke the news on Monday, September 21, 2026.
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