Marwa fled Taliban rule in Afghanistan because she wanted to study, work, wear jeans and go to the park without a male chaperone.

Now she is under lock and key in Costa Rica, along with hundreds of other migrants expelled by the United States to third countries in Central America.

Costa Rica is one of three Central American countries, along with Panama and Guatemala, that have agreed to receive migrants from other countries and to detain them until they are sent to their home nations or other host countries.

A fourth country -- El Salvador -- took a group of Venezuelans and jailed them in a maximum-security prison after the United States claimed, without providing evidence, that they are gang members.

AFP spoke to several migrants from a group of about 200 people, including around 80 children, detained at a facility near Costa Rica's border with Panama.

All said they feared for their lives in their homeland.

Marwa, 27, said she was terrified at the thought that she, her husband and two-year-old........

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