(16 Jul 2025)
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Manzini, Eswatini – 16 July 2025
1. Wide of pedestrians crossing the street
2. Wide of taxi rank and market area
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mphandlana Shongwe, Political Activist:
"We condemn the bringing of hardcore convicts to our country to mix with our young convicts who still have a chance to be rehabilitated."
4. Tracking shot of pedestrians walking
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mphandlana Shongwe, Political Activist:
“We can approach the courts, the International Court of Justice, or any other legal institutions to possibly complain."
6. Pan of taxi rank
7. SOUNDBITE (English): Prince Bailey, Swaziland United Democratic Front Representative:
"Then why has Swaziland allowed (inaudible) call it a dumping site of those people that the American government view as unworthy to be in their own country? We decry this thing that has happened and we condemn that the government revisits its stance.”
8. Wide of pedestrians crossing a street
STORYLINE:
The reception in Eswatini after the United States sent five immigrants it says were convicted of serious crimes to the landlocked African kingdom has been frosty.
Eswatini says it is holding the men in correctional facilities until they can be sent to their home countries, after it became the latest nation to accept third-country deportees from the U.S.
"We condemn the bringing of hardcore convicts to our country to mix with our young convicts who still have a chance to be rehabilitated," said political activist Mphandlana Shongwe, adding that a complaint should be lodged with the International Court of Justice.
In a late-night post on X Tuesday, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said five men — citizens of Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos — had been deported to Eswatini.
She said they were all convicted criminals and “individuals so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back.”
McLaughlin said they had been convicted of crimes including murder and child rape and one was a "confirmed" gang member.
Her social media posts included mug shots of the men and what she said were their criminal records and sentences.
They were not named.
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