Ethiopia is flouting its international human rights obligations particularly in the area of arbitrary detentions, a United Nations rights group has said. According to the Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Addis Ababa was flouting international laws of which it is a state party to. The group said its correspondence to the government dated May 2, 2017; has yet to be responded to. They quoted portions of international laws that Ethiopia was openly flouting by their current action. Ethiopia is notorious for massive crackdown on dissent especially on opposition elements and on members of the press.

Source: Ethiopian News October 03, 2017 23:03 UTC