Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say

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How it spread - 14 original reports, 8 reprints

1. Fri, 11 September 2026

   1 report
   • prospect.org16:41first to report
     Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say

     Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.

2. Fri, 18 September 2026

   3 reports
   • NYT World15:10edited after publishing
     A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees

     previouslyA Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportations

     Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.

   • citizensvoice.com18:32edited after publishing
     US deportees to Equatorial Guinea were arrested and beaten by police, lawyers say

     previouslyUS deportees were arrested and beaten by police, lawyers say

     Lawyers said police covered their heads with a bag, beat them, held them at gunpoint.

   • The Guardian World23:08
     Men deported from US bound and beaten in Equatorial Guinea detention hotel, lawyers say

     Group trapped at Hotel Bamy after US removal as rights groups sound alarm over poor conditions and violence Two men that the Trump administration expelled to Equatorial Guinea were bound, fitted with bags over their heads, beaten and pushed down a flight of stairs, all in plain view of other US deportees, according to witnesses and human rights lawyers. The men – one from Egypt and one from Eritrea – were then taken to a prison. About 30 detainees from the US remain trapped at a hotel in the...

3. Sun, 20 September 2026

   1 report
   • tucson.com13:15edited after publishing
     Amnesty International: Arizona man deported to Equatorial Guinea at 'risk of torture'

     previouslyAmnesty International: Arizona man deported to Africa 'at risk of torture'

     A Phoenix man was bound and beaten by Equatorial Guinea police after the U.S. deported him to the central African nation, an international human rights group said Friday.

4. Mon, 21 September 2026

   1 report
   • AllAfrica07:31
     Africa: Forbidden Stories' Deportation Project - Exiled to Africa By the U.S.

     [RFI] An Iranian woman expelled to the Central African Republic; a gay Ghanaian man sent back to his country and threatened with death. Their stories are part of a vast international investigation into the Trump administration's mass deportations.

5. Wed, 23 September 2026

   1 report
   • Index.hr (Croatia)11:49
     SAD šalje migrante u zatvor u Esvatiniju. Vlasti ih nazivaju "kraljevim gostima"

     SAD U TAJNOSTI deportira migrante osuđene u Americi u Esvatini. Njihov dolazak izaziva prosvjede lokalnog stanovništva i pravnu bitku, dok je sudbina deportiranih u afričkoj monarhiji neizvjesna.

6. Mon, 5 October 2026

   3 reports
   • South China Morning Post00:48
     Laotian man freed from eSwatini jail 14 months after US third-country deportation

     A Laotian citizen deported by the United States to eSwatini under Donald Trump administration’s immigration crackdown was released from a maximum-security prison in the African nation on Sunday after being held there for more than a year, his lawyer said. Phone Chomsavanh was among five immigrants deported to eSwatini – where he has no ties – in July 2025, in the early days of the Trump administration’s secretive and highly contentious third-country deportation programme. Chomsavanh’s...

   • bostonherald.com15:35edited after publishing
     Lao man deported by the US to Eswatini is released after more than a year in prison

     previouslyLao man deported by US to Eswatini is released after year in prison

     Hundreds of immigrants have been deported to African countries where they have no ties.

   • PBS NewsHour20:01
     Laotian man deported by U.S. to Eswatini is released after more than a year in prison

     Phone Chomsavanh was among five immigrants deported to Eswatini — where he has no ties — in July 2025 in the early days of the Trump administration's secretive and highly contentious third-country deportation program.

7. Tue, 6 October 2026

   1 report
   • tnledger.com02:30
     Lao man deported by the US to Eswatini is released after more than a year in prison
8. Thu, 8 October 2026

   2 reports
   • prospect.org01:18edited after publishing
     Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa

     previouslyFederal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa

     A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.

   • greeleytribune.com19:19
     Laotian man deported by US to South Sudan leaves for Laos after year in detention

     Thongxay Nilakout had been willing to return to Laos before being deported to South Sudan.

9. Fri, 9 October 2026

   1 report
   • NPR News17:49
     U.S. working to reverse an Egyptian man's third-country deportation to Africa

     The Trump administration's effort to return Ahmed Soliman to the U.S. come after an Arizona judge said his deportation violated due process.

     8 reprints

     • kcbx.org9 Oct, 17:49their copy
     • wncw.org9 Oct, 17:49their copy
     • kpbs.org9 Oct, 17:49their copy
     • kyuk.org9 Oct, 17:49their copy
     • prairiepublic.org9 Oct, 17:49their copy
     • southcarolinapublicradio.org9 Oct, 17:49their copy
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     • wemu.org9 Oct, 17:49their copy