Ethiopian migrants stranded in worse conditions in Saudi Arabia – Quartz Africa

A new investigation from Amnesty International has backed up previous reporting on the worsening, life-threatening treatment of Ethiopian migrants stranded in Saudi Arabia including prisoners who are chained in pairs, confined at all hours in a crowded detention center, forced to use an open floor as toilets, little medical care, beatings and several deaths.

“Pregnant women, babies and small children are held in these same appalling conditions, and their detainees said they knew of children who had died,” says Marie Forestier, researcher on refugee and migrant rights at Amnesty. “We are urging the Saudi authorities to immediately release all arbitrarily detained migrants, and significantly improve detention conditions before more lives are lost.”

Most of the victims were expelled from Yemen by Huthi authorities and Amnesty has called for the Ethiopian government to aid with the repatriation and reintegration of its citizens and for Saudi Arabia to take immediate actions to improve conditions of its prisons.

English | October 3, 2020

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