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| Ethiopia's Tigray conflict: Mass arrests and ethnic profiling haunt Addis Ababa |
| 2021-11-23 |
| [Garowe] The arrest of two prominent professors in Æthiopia's capital has given new focus to allegations that the authorities are engaged in a ruthless crackdown against ethnic Tigrayan civilians, as the country plunges deeper into a conflict that began over a year ago in the northern state of Tigray. Professors Assefa Fissiha and Mehari Redeai both teach law at Addis Ababa University. Although there is been no official confirmation of their arrests, multiple sources have told the BBC they were detained by the security forces for allegedly breaching the terms of Æthiopia's state of emergency, imposed as Tigrayan forces advanced towards the capital earlier this month. |
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