Middle East Focus: Refugees Die in Saudi Detention Center…………

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Refugees Die in Saudi Detention Center…………

“Riyadh, SA (AFP) — Five Ethiopians died in a crowded Saudi centre for deporting illegal immigrants, the Arab News reported Monday. The five died in the deportation centre in the southern Red Sea port of Jizan of “asphyxiation due to overcrowding,” according to a local police official, the newspaper said……Saudi officials could not be reached on the report, but it came during an intensified roundup of illegal immigrants and visa over-stayers, especially from east African countries, in Jeddah. Thousands have been arrested and sent to deportation centres in the past three months, according to media reports. On July 30, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees called on Riyadh to stop deporting Somali refugees and asylum-seekers to Mogadishu, which is enveloped in an intensifying civil war. The UNHCR, which does not have access to the Saudi deportation camps, said Saudi Arabia had sent back nearly 2,000 Somalis during June and July, most of them women.…….” Ethiopian-News
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