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Yemen: Houthis Kill, Expel Ethiopian Migrants
Read the report: https://bit.ly/2PT0p7Y (Beirut, August 13, 2020) - Houthi forces in April 2020 forcibly expelled thousands of Ethiopian migrants from northe…
(Beirut, Aug 13, 2020) - Houthi forces forcibly evicted thousands of Ethiopian migrants from northern Yemen in April 2020 using Covid-19 as a pretext, killing dozens and forcing them to the Saudi border, Human Rights Watch said today. The Saudi border guards then shot at the fleeing migrants and killed dozens more while hundreds of survivors fled to a mountainous border area.
Ethiopian migrants told Human Rights Watch that after being stranded for days with no food or water, Saudi officials allowed hundreds to enter but then arbitrarily detained them in unsanitary and abusive facilities without legal challenge to their detention or eventual deportation to Ethiopia to be able to. Hundreds of others, including children, may still be stranded in the mountainous border region.
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