Ethiopia: Torture/ Incommunicado detention: Alemayehu Fantu (m)

Index Number: AFR 25/032/2006
Date Published: 12 October 2006
Categories: Africa, Ethiopia

Alemayehu Fantu, aged about 50 and the owner of a chain of supermarkets, was arrested by the Ethiopian police on 5 October and taken to Woreda 8 Police Station in the Gulele district of Addis Ababa. He is being held incommunicado without charge, and reports indicate that he has been tortured.