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Ethiopia: We were not tortured, foreign prisoners confess
(SomaliNet) Ethiopias State-run Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) has reported that foreign terrorism suspects held in Ethiopia are being treated well, the country's official media reported on Wednesday. It quoted some of the prisoners as saying that the government had provided them with basic needs and medical attention since they were brought to the country. "Suspected international terrorists who are under custody in Ethiopia said they have not been subjected to torture or any form of violation of human rights," ENA said in its website, where it published a picture of eight of the detainees, some of them dressed in tracksuits and smiling. I do appreciate everything. The treatment here is very good. Ethiopians are very sociable and they respect human rights," ENA quoted Muhibitabo Clement Ibrahim, a Rwandan suspect, as saying. The claims came two days after Ethiopian government said it was holding 41 terrorism suspects of 17 nationalities arrested in Somalia, whose transitional Addis Ababa-backed government is battling Islamist insurgents and clan militia some suspected of links to terror groups. The New York-based group Human Rights Watch has accused Ethiopia of running a covert programme detaining foreign Islamists, with support from Kenya, the United States and Somalia's transitional government. Posted by: Fred 2007-04-13 |
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