Manuel Vega was detained and tortured by police in Cuba. He told the Mirror he was "shocked and terrified" to suffer the same treatment in the US while seeking asylum, where he was supposed to be protected

A Cuban refugee has described the inhumane conditions under which he was detained after arriving at the US border to apply for asylum.

Manuel Rodríguez*, 33, was ill with an extremely high fever and a persistent cough when he arrived at the US border with Mexico near El Paso, Texas, in 2018.