“They told us they hate Africans”: Hundreds detained, deported from Abu Dhabi
Beirut, LebanonThomson Reuters Foundation Kabirat Olokunde, a Nigerian migrant worker, planned to spend her birthday with friends in the city of Abu Dhabi. Instead, she turned 28 in a frigid prison cell, one of about 700 Africans imprisoned by Emirati authorities without charge. In unparalleled mass arrests, the workers were jailed with “no legal justification” […]