New report by human rights watchdog alleges mistreatment of ethnic Tigrayans singled out after return to conflict-hit Ethiopia. Thousands of ethnic Tigrayans repatriated from Saudi Arabia have been detained or forcibly disappeared after arriving back home in Ethiopia, a new Human Rights Watch report (HRW) has said. “Ethiopian authorities are persecuting Tigrayans deported from Saudi Arabia by wrongfully detaining and forcibly disappearing them,” said Nadia Hardman, a refugee and migrants rights researcher at HRW. The rights watchdog interviewed Tigrayans deported from Saudi Arabia to Ethiopia between December 2020 and September 2021, during which tens of thousands were repatriated under an agreement between the two countries. Many were denied contact with family and feared their relatives thought they were still in Saudi Arabia.

Source: Ethiopian News January 05, 2022 10:39 UTC