{"id":8079,"date":"2026-04-07T16:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/?p=8079"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:20:23","slug":"we-still-deserve-due-process-says-cambodian-man-deported-by-us-to-eswatini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/?p=8079","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We still deserve due process,\u2019 says Cambodian man deported by US to Eswatini"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Pheap Rom was one of 15 people sent to prison in African kingdom last year despite completing US sentences<\/p>\n<p>A Cambodian man deported by the US said he would have accepted being sent to Cambodia, but instead ended up imprisoned in Eswatini, a country he knew so little about that when he first read the name he thought it was another immigration detention centre in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>Pheap Rom, who had been convicted of attempted murder, was one of 10 deportees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/06\/us-deportees-eswatini-lawyers-ngos\">sent to Eswatini by the US<\/a> in October 2025. They joined a group of five men, from Cambodia, Cuba, Jamaica, Vietnam and Yemen, who were deported to the small southern African country in July. All were sent to a maximum-security prison. Rom was deported from Eswatini to Cambodia in March.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/07\/cambodian-man-pheap-rom-deported-us-eswatini\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pheap Rom was one of 15 people sent to prison in African kingdom last year despite completing US sentences A Cambodian man deported by the US said he would have accepted being sent to Cambodia, but instead ended up imprisoned in Eswatini, a country he knew so little about that when he first read the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92,488,111,135,75,62,77,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-cambodia","category-eswatini","category-ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","category-trump-administration","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}