“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.