Human Rights Watch said Saudi border guards have committed 'widespread and systematic' abuses against unarmed migrants crossing into the kingdom
The group cited eyewitness reports of attacks by guards and images that showed dead bodies and burial sites on migrant routes, estimating that the death toll could be “possibly thousands”. “Saudi officials are killing hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers in this remote border area out of view of the rest of the world,” said Nadia Hardman, refugee and migrant rights researcher at HRW.
“Spending billions buying up professional golf, football clubs, and major entertainment events to improve the Saudi image should not deflect attention from these horrendous crimes.”The report, titled, includes graphic testimony from migrants who have tried to cross the Yemen-Saudi border, and friends and relatives of those who attempted the dangerous journey, between March 2022 and June 2023. “I saw people killed in a way I have never imagined,” Hamdiya, a 14-year-old girl who crossed the border in a group of 60 in February, told HRW. She said she was forced to go back to the Yemeni capital Sanaa after being repeatedly shot at. “I saw 30 killed people on the spot,” she said. Juhur, 17, said Saudi border guards detained their group of five men and two girls. The guards ordered them to remove their clothes and for the men to rape the girls, who were aged 15. “One of the men refused. They [border guards] killed him on the spot,” Juhur told HRW. “I participated in the rape, yes. To survive I did it. The girls both survived because they didn’t refuse. This happened at the same spot where the killings took place.” About 750,000 Ethiopians live and work in Saudi Arabia, according to HRW, many of whom have migrated to the kingdom for economic reasons while some have fled their homeland because of human rights abuses, including during the recent,
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