Ethopia: Amnesty International urges action over ‘mass arbitrary detention’ in Amhara, marks four months since arrests

Addis Abeba– Amnesty International called for urgent international action to address what it described as “a state-led campaign of mass arbitrary detention” of thousands in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, where people have been held without charges for four months, the human rights organization said on Tuesday.

“The international silence over the mass and arbitrary detention of thousands of people in the Amhara region is beyond shameful,” said Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty…