Ethiopia
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Overview
Security forces used excessive, and sometimes lethal, force and carried out extrajudicial executions. Hundreds of people were killed and property destroyed in ethnically motivated violence by armed groups and militias. Opposition members and journalists were subjected to arbitrary arrests and detention.
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Retentionist
Retains the death penalty in law
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Ethiopia: Three killed, 19 injured in Tigray as Eritrean troops open fire on civilians
Ethiopia: UN human rights chief underscores urgency of impartial, international investigation into Tigray atrocities
Ethiopia: Eritrean troops’ massacre of hundreds of Axum civilians may amount to crime against humanity
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