‘We still deserve due process,’ says Cambodian man deported by US to Eswatini

<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 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/06/us-deportees-eswatini-lawyers-ngos">sent to Eswatini by the US</a> 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.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/07/cambodian-man-pheap-rom-deported-us-eswatini">Continue reading...</a>