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Advocacy groups representing deportees sent by the U.S. to Equatorial Guinea filed a complaint on Friday with the main human rights body of the African Union, an attempt to drum up opposition on the continent to the Trump administration's immigration policies, Reuters reported.
The complaint was submitted to the Gambia-based African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights on behalf of 14 people from African countries who were deported from the U.S. to Equatorial Guinea starting in November of last year.
Washington has defended the deportations as lawful and says they are part of a strategy "to end illegal and mass immigration and bolster America’s border security."
The complaint asks that the commission suspend further repatriations and guarantee the deportees have access to lawyers, among other provisional measures. It could decide to hear the case itself or refer it to the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, based in Tanzania.
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