HRW: Migrants in Yemen being held in detention camps
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] reported [press release] on Monday
that traffickers in Yemen [HRW backgrounder] are holding African
migrants in detention camps and using torture as a method of extorting
money from their families with the cooperation of local officials. The
report, entitled "'Yemen's Torture Camps': Abuse of Migrants by Human
Traffickers in a Climate of Immunity," [report, PDF] calls for the
Yemeni government to investigate and prosecute those involved. According
to HRW deputy Middle East and...
[more].
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