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Four men deported by US to Eswatini have right to see lawyer, court rules

Eswatini's supreme court ruled that four men deported from the US to the southern African country in July 2025—originally from Cambodia, Cuba, Vietnam, and Yemen, with no prior connection to Eswatini—have the right to meet with a local lawyer after being denied in-person legal counsel for nine months while detained in a maximum security prison. The men were part of the Trump administration's expanded deportation efforts to third countries; human rights groups have criticized such deportations as a form of human trafficking, though US Department of Homeland Security officials reject this claim as unfounded.