Eswatini accepts 10 deportees from the US despite legal challenge

This is the second group to arrive in the southern Africa state following a deal with the US government.

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This is the second batch of deportees that the Trump administration has sent to Eswatini as part of its hard-line approach towards immigration.

The 10 have been "securely accommodated", and posed no threat to the public, Eswatini's prison department said in a statement.

Eswatini human rights lawyer Mzwandile Masuku told the BBC he was "shocked and dismayed" that the government had taken in the group, despite an ongoing court case against the arrival of five deportees in July.

The US had described the five - from Jamaica, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and Yemen - as "depraved monsters".