They let men into to attack us. Though occasionally the girls and children experience sexual harassment, if they speak, nobody pays attention.
In other instances, local media has recorded claims of suicide at the facilities, attributed on the inside conditions.
Writing in a note, “I decided to die to escape hell,” a lady discovered to have hung herself from the ceiling of one of the shelters in 2015.
‘Dying is more humane than staying in the shelter,’ an inmate of the Makkah institution had already observed.