Sapa-AFP
Oct 04, 2008
Addis Ababa - Ethiopia denied claims by Human Rights Watch that it tortured terror suspects held in prisons since 2006 when Addis Ababa dispatched troops to neighbouring Somalia to quell Islamist rebels.
The New York-based rights watchdog said Wednesday that at least 90 people were rendered from Kenya to Somalia and then to Ethiopia in the aftermath of Ethiopia’s 2006 invasion of Somalia.
Several detainees were housed in solitary cells with their hands cuffed in painful positions behind their backs and their feet tied, it said in a report. It added that many were held incommunicado and without charge.
“Despite HRW’s claims none of these people has been maltreated,” Ethiopia’s foreign ministry said in a statement. “In fact many of the details claimed by HRW are unsubstantiated and most are simply untrue.”
The ministry added that the suspects were not “arbitrarily” arrested, but “were found in a the...
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September 29, 2008
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September 28, 2008
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September 29, 2008
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