Cambodian man deported by the US to Eswatini is being repatriated, his lawyer says

A lawyer for a Cambodian man deported by the United States to the African kingdom of Eswatini says he has been released from a prison to be repatriated. Pheap Rom was deported under the Trump administration’s third-country program. He was deported to the southern African nation in October and held at a maximum-security prison with other deportees. U.S.-based lawyer Tin Thanh Nguyen says his client was due to fly to Johannesburg, South Africa, on the way to Cambodia. The U.S. has sent 19 migrants from other countries to Eswatini in three batches since July. Rom is the second deportee to be repatriated.