U.S. deportees beaten, imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea

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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. “They cocked their guns, took it off of safety, and pointed their guns at me,” said one of the men, Ahmed Soliman, in a video he recorded before being imprisoned. Soliman is an Egyptian asylum seeker who arrived in the United States when he was 4 years old. "In November 2025 … the United States started this horrendous policy of sending immigrants not from Equatorial Guinea to Equatorial Guinea, a country that the U.S. knows very, very well that is a human rights violator," says human rights lawyer Tutu Alicante.