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Ethiopia makes 11,000 state of emergency arrests: State TV
13 November 2016, Addis Ababa, Agencies
Authorities have arrested more than 11,000 people since Ethiopia
declared a state of emergency in early October amid violent protests,
state TV said on Saturday.
Ethiopia has been in political crisis for around a year with frequent
outbreaks of violence as authorities have brutally cracked down on
anti-government demonstrators.
“Some 11,607 individuals have so far been detained in six prisons, of
which 347 are female, in connection with the state of emergency
declared in the country,” State of Emergency Inquiry Board chairperson
Taddesse Hordofa said in a statement broadcast by EBC.
This figure is a huge increase on the 2,500 arrests that Ethiopian
Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn’s government had announced at the
end of October.
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