Esvatini’s civil society and opposition groups express anger after the United States Exit five people To the country, the largest opposition party called it “trafficking in persons disguised as deportation agreements.”
The people from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba, were intensified in deportation last month after the Supreme Court cleared last month.
Eswatini is Swaziland, inland by South Africa and Mozambique, with a population of about 1.2 million. This is the last absolute monarchy in Africa, Ruled by King Mswati III Since 1986.
“This may be reduced or slightly slightly or slightly slightly less, or slightly slightly less,” said a spokesman Thabile Mdluli, who estimates that the five men will be held in custody for about 12 months.
She said Eswatini Eight people went to South Sudan After several weeks of holding in a transport container in Djibouti, more than 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador.
Officials say these people Solitary confinementwas imprisoned in Esvatini. However, they declined to disclose the terms of the deal, except that the United States is paying the fees that lock the people up and that they will work with international organizations to deport them to their homeland.
Many civil society organizations and politicians have not convinced them. “The action, conducted without public consultation, full preparation or community participation, raises urgent questions about legitimacy, transparency and the safety of individuals and peoples who have been expelled. Eswatiniespecially women and girls,” said the coalition of seven women’s groups.
The groups filed a petition to the U.S. embassy on Monday to take back the deported people in order to respect the human rights of the deported, and Esvatini should not be a “reason for dumping the unresolved problem from elsewhere.”
Leaders of the groups held protests outside the U.S. Embassy on Friday, where they sang, danced and held signs, including: “Whose taxpayer?”, “Esvatini is not a prison that the U.S. refused” and “bring five criminals back to the U.S.!”
“Pudemo strongly condemns the dangers and reckless decisions of the regime of King Mswati III allow the United States of America to dump its most dangerous criminals in the Stax region,” Eswatini’s largest opposition party, Pudemo said in a statement.
“This is not diplomacy, but trafficking in persons disguised as deportation agreements. It is an insult to all Emswati who values peace, security and the sanctity of our homeland.”
The coordination conference of the umbrella organization NGO said the situation was “shocking” and condemned the “stigmatized and dehumanized language” used by U.S. officials. It called for the publication of the Eswatini-US protocol and was suspended, awaiting “real public consultation and transparent national dialogue.”
Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, postal X On July 16, she said the men were convicted of crimes including children, murder and burglary, “so uniquely savages that their country refused to bring them back.”
She added: “These fallen monsters have been terrorizing the American community, but… they are not in the soil of America.”
Esvatini Prime Minister Russell Dlamini Tell the local media On Friday, the government was convinced it would manage prisoners safely. “Esvatini is currently holding prisoners who commit crimes that are more dangerous than five deported crimes,” he said.
Prison Service spokesman Baphelele Kunene said citizens of the country should not be afraid. “We can confirm that the five inmates involved have been accepted as one of our high security centers and they responded well to the new environment,” he said. “Even if they are from the United States, they are not treated with priority because they are guided by the same prison regulations, the same food as others, and are expected to show the same and the same amount of respect for the prison protocol.”
The U.S. State Department’s latest human rights report on Esvatini in 2023 said: “There are credible reports: arbitrary or illegal killing, including extrajudicial killing; torture and cruelty, inhumane, or punishment or punishment by the government; serious issues of judicial independence; [and] political prisoner or detainee”.
The party is banned from elections, and advocates of the system believe that it makes members of Congress more representative of their voters. In September, Pudemo’s leader Mlungisi Makhanya was Allegedly poisoned In South Africa. The party said it was an assassination attempt, which Esvatini government denied.
The Department of Homeland Security has been contacted for comment.
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