On September 11th, in a hotel on the outskirts of Malabo, two men deported by the United States government were beaten, bound, and hooded before witnesses — punished, it appears, for the act of bearing witness themselves. Their story is part of a broader arrangement in which the Trump administration has paid Equatorial Guinea $7.5 million to receive people whom American courts had already determined would face torture if expelled — a legal and moral contradiction now made flesh. What unfolds at Hotel Bamy is not merely a diplomatic failure but a reckoning with what it means to render a human b
US deportees beaten and tortured in Equatorial Guinea detention hotel, lawyers say
Two men beaten, bound and hooded; 30 deportees detained in unsafe conditions without medical care; at least 12 forcibly returned to countries where they face persecution.