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Five im­mi­grants de­port­ed by the Unit­ed States to the small south­ern African na­tion of Eswa­ti­ni un­der the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion’s third-coun­try pro­gram are be­ing held in soli­tary con­fine­ment in var­i­ous pris­ons for an un­de­ter­mined time, a gov­ern­ment spokesper­son said.

Tha­bile Md­luli, the Eswa­ti­ni gov­ern­ment spokesper­son, de­clined to iden­ti­fy the cor­rec­tion­al fa­cil­i­ties where the five men are, cit­ing se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns. She said they were be­ing held in soli­tary con­fine­ment away from oth­er in­mates.

She added that Eswa­ti­ni planned to ul­ti­mate­ly repa­tri­ate the five to their home coun­tries with the help of a Unit­ed Na­tions agency. Md­luli told The As­so­ci­at­ed Press it wasn’t clear how long that would take.