Asylum seekers deported from the United States are being held against their will in Equatorial Guinea. The Trump administration struck a deal to use a family-owned hotel as a detention center. Many of these individuals had previously received protection from US judges. They now face pressure to return to their home countries, where their lives may be in danger.

Under an opaque $7.5 million deal with the Trump administration, Equatorial Guinea's all-powerful president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, has turned a hotel owned by his family…

Under an opaque $7.5 million deal with the Trump administration, Equatorial Guinea’s all-powerful president has turned a hotel owned by his family into a prison for asylum seekers…