Posted AT 4:13 AM EDT on 29/05/07
Horror stories of torture hound Ethiopia as it proclaims commitment to reform
NEKEMTE, ETHIOPIA — During the six months that 25-year-old Aman was detained in an Addis Ababa prison, he alleges, police kicked and punched him and kept him for weeks on end in a tiny cell with his hands bound as if always in prayer.
Then there was the day that Aman, a second-year law student at the time, went before a judge and found himself correcting her on the Ethiopian criminal code.
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