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Mr. Soliman, 31, had lived in the U.S. since age 3 and held a green card, according to records from the African Commission.
Equatorial Guinea's government used the hotel to quarantine a suspected Ebola patient, according to a lawyer.
Mr. Birhane, 47, came to the U.S. as a refugee at age 13.
Mr. Soliman lost his green card status after a 2023 prison sentence for drug possession and aggravated assault.
Mr. Birhane and Mr. Soliman were beaten, arrested, and taken to an overcrowded detention center called La Luna.
Equatorial Guinea's government has returned at least a dozen people to their home countries, according to lawyers.
A video shows an Equatorial Guinea government official telling an Ethiopian man his options are returning home or prison.
Equatorial Guinea promised the U.S. in a diplomatic note that it would not torture or mistreat deportees.
Police officers in Equatorial Guinea threatened to kill immigrants if they did not voluntarily return to their home countries, according to the immigrants.
United Nations experts appealed to Equatorial Guinea's government for access to medical care and necessities at the hotel in May.
Police in Equatorial Guinea stormed hotel rooms and assaulted deportees in July, according to deportees and lawyers.
Lawyers for two arrested deportees said the men were held in jail, vanished for two days, and were then returned to jail.
The Trump administration argued in court documents that it cannot control what a foreign government does to a person after deportation.
Police in Equatorial Guinea arrested Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane, giving the reason as a broken mirror.
Witnesses said a beating of deportees occurred after a video showing deteriorating hotel conditions was released.
On September 11, police in Equatorial Guinea put burlap sacks on two deportees' faces, tied their hands, beat them with guns, and shoved them down stairs.
The Trump administration ended a policy of allowing certain immigrants to stay in the U.S. by default and began finding third countries to accept them.
None of the immigrants being held in the hotel in Equatorial Guinea are charged with a crime in that country.
American judges had previously ruled a majority of the immigrants now in the hotel could not be deported to their home countries due to likely torture or persecution.
Equatorial Guinea has agreed to accept immigrants deported from the United States.