DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabian authorities have deported more than 12,000 migrants held under “appalling conditions” back to their native Somalia, where many now face life-threatening situations, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

The New York-based rights group said in a statement that hundreds of women and children are among the migrants sent back to a country where hundreds of thousands live in dire conditions in camps in the capital, Mogadishu, after fleeing famine and violence elsewhere.

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