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Police arrested and beat 2 deportees from the US to Equatorial Guinea, lawyers say

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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Two men deported by the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arbitrarily arrested after police covered their heads with a bag, beat them and held them at gunpoint in a hotel-turned-detention center, their...

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  1. Philadelphia Inquirer

    US deportees to Equatorial Guinea were arrested and beaten by police, lawyers say (opens Philadelphia Inquirer)

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    Two men deported by the United States to Equatorial Guinea have been arbitrarily arrested, their lawyers and rights groups said on Friday, after the police covered their heads with a bag, beat them and held them at gunpoint in a hotel-turned detention center

  2. The Guardian

    Men deported from US bound and beaten in Equatorial Guinea detention hotel, lawyers say (opens The Guardian)

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    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 depo…

  3. Vail Daily

    Police arrested and beat 2 deportees from the US to Equatorial Guinea, lawyers say (opens Vail Daily)

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    DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Two men deported by the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arbitrarily arrested after police covered their heads with a bag, beat them and held them at gunpoint in a hotel-turned-detention center, their...

  4. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    2 men deported to Africa claim retaliation (opens Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

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    DAKAR, Senegal -- Two men deported by the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arbitrarily arrested after police covered their heads with a bag, beat them and held them at gunpoint in a hotel-turned-detention center, their lawyers and rights groups said on Friday.

  5. Democracy Now

    "Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again": U.S. Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Imprisoned (opens Democracy Now)

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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.

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