{"id":1033,"date":"2026-05-14T23:41:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2026-05-14T23:41:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:41:57","slug":"un-pleads-for-equatorial-guinea-not-to-send-us-asylum-seekers-to-their-home-countries-their-life-would-be-in-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"UN pleads for Equatorial Guinea not to send US asylum seekers to their home countries: \u2018Their life would be in danger\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights experts make rare public appeal as US deportees describe being held in \u2018prison-like\u2019 conditions<\/p>\n<p>Human rights experts at the United Nations issued a rare public appeal to Equatorial Guinea, urging the central African country to halt its plans to return US deportees to their home countries, where they face political violence, torture and death.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2026\/05\/experts-urge-equatorial-guinea-uphold-international-obligations-and-halt\">statement<\/a>, co-signed by a representative of the African Commission on Human and People\u2019s Rights, adds diplomatic pressure on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/equatorial-guinea\">Equatorial Guinea<\/a>, one of the world\u2019s most repressive regimes, to comply with international human rights standards and avoid refoulement, or the expulsion of people to countries where they face persecution.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/14\/un-equatorial-guinea-us-deportees\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights experts make rare public appeal as US deportees describe being held in \u2018prison-like\u2019 conditions Human rights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}