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Nigerian activist married to U.S. citizen beaten by ICE, deported to Ghana

A Nigerian activist married to a U.S. citizen was beaten by agents after resisting a flight to Ghana, then sent on to Togo without travel documents, surviving on money from his family.

Sep 2025Country of origin: Nigeria

Nigerian activist married to U.S. citizen beaten by ICE, deported to Ghana
Photo via Third Country Deportation Watch

D.A., a political activist who was violently attacked in Nigeria and is married to a U.S. citizen, was granted protection from removal to Nigeria in June after a judge found he faced persecution there. He says ICE agents beat him when he refused to board a military cargo plane bound for Ghana, where he was flown with a dozen other West African men and women. After more than two weeks in Ghana's Dema Camp, where deportees faced heat, mosquitoes and unsanitary conditions, he was sent to Togo without travel documents and is now staying in a hotel room with other deportees, relying on money sent by his family in the United States.

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