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Cuban Man Deported to Eswatini Launches Hunger Strike

HeadlineOct 23, 2025

A Cuban man deported by the Trump administration to the southern African kingdom of Eswatini has gone on hunger strike to protest his imprisonment in a maximum-security prison there. Roberto Mosquera del Peral is among 11 “third-country deportees” sent by the Trump administration to Eswatini despite legal challenges by human rights groups who’ve called the deportations a violation of U.S. and international law.

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