“The squalid detention centres in southern Saudi Arabia fall well short of international standards. For a wealthy country like Saudi Arabia, there’s no excuse for holding migrants in such deplorable conditions,” Mr Coogle added. Oil-rich Saudi Arabia has long exploited migrant labour from Africa and Asia. But there’s over a hundred of us in a room, and the heat is killing us,” said another young Ethiopian man. Earlier this month, Human Rights Watch reported that Houthi forces used Covid-19 as a pretext to expel thousands of Ethiopian migrants into neighbouring Saudi Arabia.

Source: Ethiopian News August 31, 2020 03:11 UTC