Nigerian migrant worker, planned to spend his birthday with friends in the city of Abu Dhabi. Instead, she was 28 years old in an ice imprisonment cell, one of about 700 Africans imprisoned by the emirati authorities at no cost.
In unprecedented mass arrests, workers were put in prison "without legal justification" at night 24-25 June, and later began to be deported, said international impact of human rights policies and the Euro-Mediterranean monitor human rights.
"I celebrated my birthday in chains without mattress," Olokunde said in Thomson Reuters Foundation by telephone from Lagos, Nigeria, where she was deported on 3 August.
"I always have the trauma in me," added the single mother, who worked like a bus guide and a guardian at an international school in Abu Dhabi.
She was deported without access to her business and is now unemployed and unable to support her son, brothers and sisters and parents.
The communications office of the Government of Abu Dhabi and the Nigerian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the report's rights groups on Thursday.
The Gulf monarchy, a hub of regional trade and tourism and one of the seven emirates that form the United Arab Emirates (UAE), tolerates little criticism.
Human rights groups have documented the imprisonment of hundreds of activists, academics and lawyers in the UAE, often following unfair trials on vague charges. The UAE has rejected the accusations as false and unfounded.
The United Arab Emirates houses nearly 10 million people, more than 80% are expatriates sending money to their families, according to the United Nations.
Workers in developing countries often live in residences shared at Abu Dhabi with separate wings for different nationalities, such as the gym, where Olokunde was arrested.
African and Asian workers have highlighted the stigma and racism in the past, but the two rights groups said the RAID June was a marked escalation.
"The scale of this racial motivated expulsion is totally unprecedented," said Michela Pugliese, a migratory researcher at Euro-Med Monitor.
"The victims and other migrants who aspire to work safely in the UAE have been unjustly revoked this right. Its consequences will be felt for years to come."
The investigation, based on talks with more than 100 migrant workers, found that Abu Dhabi's rapid intervention forces, the Criminal Investigation Department and the police have made mass arrests in at least at least four apartment buildings.
Forced evictions are illegal following, said Pugliae, as most workers had a valid residence permit and a work visa and have been refused a regular procedure or access to their personal property.
About 100 individuals remain in detention and more African workers have been arrested in recent weeks, "added Puglia.
The two human rights groups said they requested the Interior Ministry's clarification of the US on the reasons for the arrests and deportations, but received no response.
Migrant workers told researchers that the stop units used excessive force against them, including the paralyzing rifles, and touched the body of women inappropriately.
Olokunde said she was stopped in shorts and a bra, and was not allowed to the dress before being transported to the prison.
When it and other women have attended a hunger strike to demand the justification for their arrest, they were chained for seven days, including its anniversary, "said Olokunde.
Two workers who spoke to the Thomson Reuters Foundation said they slept on the floor in large group cells, but did not receive masks to protect against CVIV-19 infection.
In prison, the report stated that detainees were denied access to health care and health cushions, while women had their periods.