‘We still deserve due process,’ says Cambodian man deported by US to Eswatini
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<p>Pheap Rom was one of 15 people sent to prison in African kingdom last year despite completing US sentences</p><p>A Cambodian man deported by the US said he would have accepted being sent to Cambodia, but instead ended up imprisoned in Eswatini, a country he knew so little about that when he first read the name he thought it was another immigration detention centre in Louisiana.</p><p>Pheap Rom, who had been convicted of attempted murder, was one of 10 deportees &
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‘We still deserve due process,’ says Cambodian man deported by US to Eswatini Pheap Rom was one of 15 people sent to prison in African kingdom last year despite completing US sentences A Cambodian man deported by the US said he would have accepted being sent to Cambodia , but instead ended up imprisoned in Eswatini, a country he knew so little about that when he first read the name he thought it was another immigration detention centre in Louisiana. Pheap Rom, who had been convicted of attempted murder, was one of 10 deportees sent to Eswatini by the US in October 2025. They joined a group of five men, from Cambodia, Cuba, Jamaica, Vietnam and Yemen, who were deported to the small southern African country in July. All were sent to a maximum-security prison. Rom was deported from Eswatini to Cambodia in March. The US government labelled the men dangerous criminals. Their lawyers said they had already served sentences for crimes committed in the US. Rom served a 15-year sentence in the US for four counts of attempted murder, after taking a plea deal. Shortly after his sentencing, he was told he would be deported to Cambodia, which he said he had accepted. “Even if you were a convicted felon, at the end of the day we still deserve due process. If our due process is taken away, anybody else’s due process can be taken away,” said Rom, who arrived in the US as a refugee in 1985, aged three. “I’m not disputing the fact that I got a final order and I’m to be removed and I’m content with that. As long as I’m being removed to the country that I’m supposed to be removed to. “I might be free, but I want people to know that there’s still people that are still in prison in a third country,” he said. Donald Trump’s administration has deported dozens of people to third countries from which they do not originate. African countries that have signed deportation deals include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana , Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda . Following Rom...
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