NAIROBI, KENYA —Officials in Ethiopia have arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared thousands of ethnic Tigrayans who recently were deported from Saudi Arabia, a new Human Rights Watch report says as the country’s deadly Tigray conflict continues. This is the latest report citing witnesses who have described mass arrests of ethnic Tigrayans. But Saudi officials have deported thousands of them in recent years. Human Rights Watch said Ethiopian authorities have transferred Tigrayan deportees to reception centers in the capital, Addis Ababa, where some were unlawfully held. A federal police spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Human Rights Watch allegations.

Source: Ethiopian News January 05, 2022 11:28 UTC