South Sudan says 8 men deported from the US are now in its custody

JUBA, South Sudan -- South Sudanese authorities confirmed on Tuesday that eight men deported from the United States were now in the custody of the government of the African country. U.S. authorities said on Friday that the eight men deported in May and held for weeks at an American military base in Djibouti arrived in South Sudan after the Supreme Court cleared the way for their transfer. The men — from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam and South Sudan are part of a case that had gone to the Supreme Court, which had permitted their removal from the U.S. Administration officials said the men had been convicted of violent crimes in the U.S.

Author: The Associated Press

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