Ethiopia: Detention without charge/ Incommunicado detention/ Fear for safety

Index Number: AFR 25/028/2006
Date Published: 25 September 2006
Categories: Africa, Ethiopia

Wasihun Melese and Anteneh Getnet, both members of the teachers' trade union, the Ethiopian Teachers' Association (ETA), were arrested in the capital, Addis Ababa, on 23 September. They are being held incommunicado without charge and are at risk of torture, ill-treatment, or "disappearance".