An international coalition of lawyers has filed a complaint with the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (a Gambia-based body that monitors compliance with the African Charter on human rights) seeking to halt US "third-country" deportations to Equatorial Guinea. The complaint, filed on behalf of 14 individuals, targets a bilateral agreement under which the Trump administration sends migrants to Equatorial Guinea — a small oil-rich state on central Africa's Atlantic coast — even when they have no connection to the country and often do not speak its languages; six of those represented had already been forcibly repatriated last week despite expressing fear of persecution or torture. The case matters because the US State Department's own 2024 human rights report cited credible accounts of torture and other serious abuses inside Equatorial Guinea, and lawyers say they have lost contact with three of the deportees, raising urgent concerns about their safety.