Leading academic Professor Assefa Fiseha was arrested under Ethiopia 's state of emergency laws. Ethiopia's Human Rights Commission says "the state of emergency was not executed in a manner that upholds the principles of human rights". Leading Ethiopian academic and critic Professor Assefa Fiseha is one of at least 1 000 people arrested under that country's state of emergency which was enacted a fortnight ago. Fiseha is a scholar of comparative federalism, constitutional law, management of diversity, intergovernmental relations, minority rights, second chambers and judicial systems. Democracy and human rights group the Dullah Omar Institute, which is based at the University of the Western Cape, said it believed his detention was retrogressive to healing the divisions in Ethiopia.

Source: Ethiopian News November 23, 2021 15:55 UTC