Amnesty International interviewed 12 detained Ethiopian migrants via a messaging app between June 24, 2020 and July, 31 2020. Conditions are especially dire in Al-Dayer centre and Jizan central prison, where detainees reported sharing cells with, on average, 350 people. Two detainees reported personally seeing the dead bodies of three people - an Ethiopian man, a Yemeni man and a Somali man - in Al-Dayer centre. Three women reported that two babies and three toddlers had died, in Al-Dayer, Jeddah and Mecca prisons. Two detainees reported that guards had administered electric shocks to them and other detainees as punishment for complaining about conditions.

Source: Ethiopian News October 02, 2020 15:22 UTC