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Location
Country: Eswatini
City & Region: Matsapha (Manzini), Africa
Latitude, Longitude: -26.513155303820398, 31.30144783914519
Contact Information
P O Box 422, Manzini
Tel. (+268) 518 4266\8\4
Web https://www.gov.sz/index.php/component/content/article/1374-matsapha-correctional-centre
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NEWS & TESTIMONY
2025
"A Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison having been held there for more than three months without charge or access to legal counsel under the Trump administration's third-country program, his U.S.-based lawyer said Wednesday. ... "My client is arbitrarily detained, and now his life is on the line ... I urge the Eswatini Correctional Services to provide Mr. Mosquera's family and me with an immediate update on his condition and to ensure that he is receiving adequate medical attention. I demand that Mr. Mosquera be permitted to meet with his lawyer in Eswatini."
"Across Africa, and in the tiny nation of Eswatini, fury has erupted over the arrival of foreign deportees from the United States, after its government confirmed that migrants described by a Department of Homeland security spokesperson as 'depraved monsters' had been sent to its prisons. Roughly the size of New Jersey, Eswatini — formerly known as Swaziland — is governed by a monarch who has absolute power. On Wednesday, officials said that five deportees from the US were being held in isolated units in its jails, acknowledging 'widespread concern' but insisting the deported men 'pose no threat to the country or its citizens.' The five men are being kept in solitary confinement, acting government spokesperson Thabile Mdluli told CNN Friday, but stopped short of disclosing the prisons they were held in, citing security risks." (CNN, 18 July 2025)
