"The New York-based Legal Aid Society said it was representing one of the men, Jamaican national Orville Etoria, and that he had been "inexplicably" sent to Eswatini when his home country was willing to accept him back. The 62-year-old Etoria was convicted of a serious crime in the U.S. in 1997 and was released from prison on parole in 2021, the Legal Aid Society said in a statement. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a post on X that Etoria had been convicted of murder."
"The Legal Aid Society said the U.S. government had falsely claimed that Jamaica refused to accept him back. Homeland Security, when announcing the deportation of a total of five men to Eswatini in mid-July, claimed they were "so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back." Homeland Security said at the time the men were dangerous criminals from Jamaica, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and Yemen but didn't identify them by name."
Three men deported from the United States to Eswatini in July have been held in a maximum-security prison for seven weeks without charges and without access to legal counsel despite having completed criminal sentences in the U.S. One deportee, Jamaican national Orville Etoria, served a sentence for a serious crime and was released on parole in 2021; U.S. officials said he was convicted of murder. U.S. authorities moved at least 20 deportees to various African nations recently under a third-country program. Lawyers say some deportees were arrested and sent to countries they had never visited.
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