The Ethiopian police have hundreds of ethnic Tigrayans in Addis Ababa arrested since die Government troops on June 28th die control over die Have lost capital Tigray.
It is die third wave of arrests in the Ethiopian capital, die Dozens of Tigrayans, human rights groups and lawyers have described nationwide crackdown on ethnic Tigrayans since November, when fighting between the army and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front broke out in the far north of Tigray.
The authorities in Addis Ababa said they recently shut down a number of Tigrayan-owned businesses over alleged links with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, die die Government designated a terrorist organization in May and die Ethiopian politics dominated for three decades until 2018.
However, Addis Ababa police spokesman Fasika Fanta said he had no information about die Arrests or die Closure of shops.
“People may be suspected of a crime and arrested, but no one has been targeted because of their race,” said federal police spokesman Gilan Abdi.
The Ethiopian attorney general had previously said there was no government policy to “purge” Tigray officials. He said he couldn’t rule out the possibility that some innocent people might be arrested, however die Tigray People’s Liberation Front has a large network in Addis Ababa and Ethiopia should be careful.
Officials from the Prime Minister’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office and the Government Working Group on Tigray Affairs did not respond to requests for comments on reports from released detainees die Arrests or individual cases.
Arrest not less than 104
Tesvalim Barhi, a lawyer working for an opposition party in Tigray heard, Reuters said he had in the past two weeks of the arrest of at least 104 tigrays in Addis Ababa and five in the eastern city of Dire Dawa.
He added that die Names of colleagues, friends or relatives have been provided and that die Most of the detainees were hotel owners, merchants, workers, day laborers, shopkeepers or waiters.
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