{"id":8219,"date":"2026-04-10T17:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/?p=8219"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:20:23","slug":"four-men-deported-by-us-to-eswatini-have-right-to-see-lawyer-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/?p=8219","title":{"rendered":"Four men deported by US to Eswatini have right to see lawyer, court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The men, sent to the southern African country in July, have been denied in-person counsel for nine months <\/p>\n<p>Four men deported by the US to Eswatini and denied in-person legal counsel for nine months while detained in a maximum security prison have the right to see a local lawyer, Eswatini\u2019s supreme court ruled.<\/p>\n<p>The men, from Cambodia, Cuba, Vietnam and Yemen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/16\/trump-administration-deports-five-migrants-to-eswatini-in-southern-africa\">were sent to the small southern African country<\/a>, formerly known as Swaziland, in July despite having no connection to the country, as part of Donald Trump\u2019s administration\u2019s efforts to ramp up deportations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/10\/trump-administration-deport-men-eswatini-court-rule\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men, sent to the southern African country in July, have been denied in-person counsel for nine months Four men deported by the US to Eswatini and denied in-person legal counsel for nine months while detained in a maximum security prison have the right to see a local lawyer, Eswatini\u2019s supreme court ruled. The men, [&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":[92,111,75,73,62,77,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-eswatini","category-trump-administration","category-us-immigration","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\/8219","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=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}