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A Cuban man deported to Eswatini launched a hunger strike after three months imprisoned without charges or access to legal counsel, his lawyer says.

He’s one of five men sent to the African nation under Trump’s third-country deportation program, which pays African countries to accept U.S. deportees.

Human rights groups say the men are denied due process and face dangerous prison conditions at a maximum-security facility in Eswatini, an absolute monarchy.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison, having been held there for more than three months without charge or access

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