Ethiopia, Jan. 25 -- The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC/Commission) is concerned about the slow pace of changes to detention conditions and free operation of opposition parties in the Gambella Region. The Commission deployed a monitoring team to the region's Agnwah Zone which, from December 21 to December 24, 2020, also talked to various relevant authorities.

The detention conditions in all the region's prisons and/or detention centers that the Commission has visited needs to be improved urgently. In particular, the Commission was alarmed to find two boys aged 11 and 12 and a girl, aged 14, detained since mid-December 2020 on suspicion of being members of OLF Shane. At the time of the visit, EHRC urged the authorities for their ...