From: Berhane Habtemariam (Berhane.Habtemariam@gmx.de)
Date: Mon Aug 10 2009 - 17:39:38 EDT
Dozens arrested in Ethiopia's latest crackdown - rights group
Sunday 9 August 2009 02:30.
August 5, 2009(ADDIS ABABA) -- Ethiopian security forces have arrested as
many as dozens of people in the most recent wave of arrest to that has
targeted prominent Oromo intellectuals, students and businessmen, a rights
group said.
The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) said that the
crackdown was carried out in the Capital, Addis Ababa and in different parts
of the regional state of Oromia by mainly security agents deployed in
civilian clothing.
The security service claimed that the local residents harbored and or
supported the opposition armed group, Oromo Liberation Front, which Addis
Ababa designates it as a terrorist group.
Among the arrested people, Taye Araddo was one of the active participant in
the Union of Oromo Students at Addis Ababa University. The HRLHA said this
was not the first time for him to be imprisoned extra judicially. He spent
three years without verdict from 2004 to 2006, although he was eventually
acquitted.
The rights group argued that the latest move violates article 17, No2 of the
constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia which provides
that "no person may be subjected to arbitrary arrest, and no person may be
detained without a charge or conviction against him."
Taye Danda'a along with many other Oromos currently is being held
incommunicado at the Maikelawi Office of Central Criminal Investigation in
Addis Ababa . Family members, friends and lawyers of the detainees have been
denied visit.
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