Monday, November 11, 2013

Ethiopian gov't slams 'unacceptable' violence in Saudi raids

(Nov 11, 2013, (Arabian Business))--The Ethiopian government has described violence in relation to a crackdown on illegal workers in Saudi Arabia as “unacceptable” and called on the Saudi government to intervene. Saudi police have admitted shooting dead an Ethiopian man during a raid last week that rounded up hundreds of suspected illegal residents and transported them to a detention centre to await deportation.

Two other people died during a riot against the crackdown on Saturday night. One of the dead was a Saudi man hit in the head with a rock, while the other person’s identity has not been revealed but is believed to be an illegal resident.

“This is unacceptable. We call on the Saudi government to investigate this issue seriously,” Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Minister Tedros Adhanom told Reuters. Read more from Arabian Business »

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