Some Nigerians detained in the Kaliti Prison, Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital city, have been brutalised by the country’s policemen, SaharaReporters has gathered. According to sources, the policemen on March 30, picked on Nigerian inmates alone and started beating them. Though the reason for the assault was not stated, one of the personnel was heard saying the inmates were fond of giving the Nigerian embassy bad reports about the prison officials. It would also be recalled that in January, some Nigerian inmates locked up in the maximum security Kaliti Prison had called on the Nigerian government to facilitate their transfer of sentence to Nigerian prisons, alleging grave human rights abuses in the Ethiopian prison. “The Nigerian inmates in Kaliti maximum prison Ethiopia are soliciting help from the Nigerian government; we ask that the government come to our aid urgently.

Source: Ethiopian News April 05, 2023 13:33 UTC