BREAKING🚨 ICE told a judge its flight to Equatorial Guinea was canceled. It landed there anyway, then left without the gay Arizona man the court ordered brought home. Ahmed Soliman, the 31-year-old gay man a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to bring home from Equatorial Guinea, is still there. His lawyers filed an emergency motion within hours of ICE's chartered Boeing 767 touching down in Malabo. They called the government's sworn claim "plainly false" and asked the judge to keep the jet on the ground until Soliman was aboard. It took off about two and a half hours after landing, before the judge could rule. The day before, ICE agent Andrea Chiriboga Villacis told the court that headquarters had called off the Equatorial Guinea mission, so it was "not available as a means to transport Petitioner to the United States." Documents obtained by reporters showed something else, as Gillian Brockell first reported in The American Prospect. An Eastern Airlines jet chartered by ICE was leaving Alexandria, Louisiana, with stops in Senegal, Equatorial Guinea, Burundi and the Central African Republic. The plan was to drop 25 more deportees in Equatorial Guinea, 30 in Burundi and 100 in the Central African Republic. Nothing in it mentioned picking up Soliman. Activists in Louisiana watched dozens of shackled people being loaded onto that plane Thursday. Soliman's family brought him from Egypt when he was 4. He grew up in Phoenix. An immigration judge had blocked sending him back to Egypt because he is gay. In April, he asked for a fear interview, was refused, and was put on a plane to Equatorial Guinea, a country he had no ties to. On October 7, Judge John C. Hinderaker, a Trump appointee, ruled that his due process rights were violated and ordered his return. In Equatorial Guinea, Soliman has been held under armed guard in a decommissioned hotel. In September, an officer was caught on video pointing an assault-style rifle at him while a supervisor shouted "Shoot him!" After he spoke to the press, he was hooded, beaten and jailed for weeks without charge. At least 63 people have been sent there on ICE flights since last November. They report beatings, being held at gunpoint, and being denied food, water and medical care. His lawyers say he was hurt in a car accident two weeks ago and hospitalized over the weekend with a serious illness. He "continues to suffer irreparable harm every day that he remains in Equatorial Guinea," they wrote. Justice Department lawyers appear to be preparing to ask an appeals court to block the judge's order.