Demonstrators flash the Oromo protest gesture during a festival on Oct. 2 where dozens died in a stampede. Top Oromo politician Merera Gudina was arrested on Nov. 30. (Tiksa Negeri/Reuters)A top opposition politician from Ethiopia’s restive Oromo ethnic group was arrested after he spoke out against the country’s state of emergency in front of the European Parliament, the government announced Thursday. “We don’t know his whereabouts,” Beyene Petros, head of the Medrek coalition of opposition parties that includes Gudina’s Oromo Federalist Congress, told The Washington Post. Local and international rights organizations, however, have condemned the string of arrests accompanying the state of emergency, including that of journalists and politicians.

Source: Ethiopian News December 01, 2016 08:55 UTC