CRIME & LAW

Cuban deportee in Eswatini on hunger strike

Roberto Mosquera del Peral, a Cuban man deported by the United States to Eswatini, is on hunger strike in a maximum-security prison after more than three months held without charge or access to a lawyer, his U.S.-based attorney said. Eswatini officials call it religious fasting; his lawyer calls it desperation and protest. Lawyers and civic groups are challenging the detentions under the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program. Of five men flown in July, one was repatriated; others, plus new arrivals this month, remain jailed amid disputed details of Mosquera’s conviction and monitored calls.

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