Thousands of people have been detained in Ethiopia’s capital and elsewhere since the government earlier this month declared a state of emergency over the country’s intensifying war, according to the state-created Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which said authorities are not doing enough to justify the reasons for detentions.
The human rights group’s estimate is the largest yet of the detentions that have occurred since November 2 as teams of volunteers roam the streets in Addis Ababa looking for ethnic Tigrayans suspected of supporting forces from the northern Tigray region. Ethnic Tigrayan forces have been fighting Ethiopia’s military for more than a year.
Thousands detained in Ethiopia crackdown, rights body says | News | Al Jazeera
