"However, their lawyer Oliver Barker-Vormawor told a hearing on Tuesday that most had already been deported, despite eight claiming they could not legally be sent to their home countries due to the risk of torture, persecution or inhumane treatment. This is precisely the injury we were trying to prevent, Barker-Vormawor said, adding that the onward deportations meant their lawsuit had become irrelevant. Of the 11 men, six were sent to Togo and another released to a relative in Ghana, he said."
"The lawsuit said the men had been shackled on a plane from a Louisiana detention centre without being told their destination and several were put in straitjackets for 16 hours. A bisexual man had already been sent from Ghana back to the Gambia, where he had to go into hiding, the US lawyers said. The other four were being held in the military camp."
The US under a policy to increase expulsions has sent migrants to third countries including Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda and El Salvador. Ghana accepted 14 West African nationals and indicated readiness to accept more, but officials and lawyers disagreed over onward movements. Eleven men were held in a military camp and filed a legal case seeking release, while lawyers reported most had already been deported despite eight claiming legal protection from return due to risks of torture, persecution or inhumane treatment. Separate US lawsuits allege shackling, restraint in straitjackets and lack of destination notice. A Jamaican deportee was repatriated from Eswatini after US imprisonment.
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