“Individuals have been arrested from their workplaces, properties and on the streets and are being held at varied metropolis police stations,” within the capital Addis Ababa, the EHRC mentioned.
The Ethiopian Human Rights Fee acknowledged that the state of emergency declared on November 2 offers the authorities the facility to detain “the folks suspected of collaborating with terrorist teams on cheap grounds,” however demanded that legislation enforcement “should defend human rights and cling to ideas of legitimacy, reasonableness, proportionalism, and impartiality.”
Human rights “can’t be restricted below any circumstances,” the fee warned Ethiopian legislation enforcement companies.
Fasika denied on Friday that the police have been focusing on folks due to their ethnicity, saying they have been TPLF brokers who had been paid and had been given weapons.
However he conceded that the general public being detained have been ethnic Tigrayans, whereas saying folks of different ethnicities had additionally been taken into custody. He mentioned he didn’t have actual numbers of people that had been detained.
CNN is searching for response from the Ethiopian authorities to the accusation from the fee.
Amnesty Worldwide leveled related accusations towards Ethiopia in July, saying then: “Police in Addis Ababa have arbitrarily arrested and detained dozens of Tigrayans with out due course of … The arrests look like ethnically motivated, with former detainees, witnesses and legal professionals describing how police checked id paperwork earlier than arresting folks and taking them to detention facilities.”
