“Such a Brutal Crackdown”

• Ensure that complaints of torture and ill-treatment in detention are promptly
investigated and that detainees who bring complaints about mistreatment in
detention are protected from reprisals.
To the United Nations Human Rights Council:
• Press Ethiopia to immediately end the use of excessive force against protesters
and related human rights abuses, and to hold accountable those responsible for
killings and other abuses in connection with the protests.
• Press for the release of all protesters, opposition politicians, journalists and others
arbitrarily detained during the time of the protest and prosecuted under the
criminal code or anti-terrorism law.
• Urge Ethiopian officials to invite relevant UN human rights mechanisms, including
the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment; UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of
peaceful assembly and of association; and the Working Group on Arbitrary
Detention to visit Ethiopia.
• Support a credible, independent and transparent investigation into the use of
excessive force by security forces. The inquiry should include a full accounting of
the dead and injured, the circumstances surrounding each incident resulting in
death or injury, the extent to which government security forces were implicated in
human rights violations.
To Ethiopia’s International Partners:
• All concerned governments should press Ethiopia to immediately end the use of
excessive force against protesters and related human rights abuses, and to hold
accountable those responsible for killings and other abuses in connection with the
protests.
• Support a credible, independent and transparent investigation into the use of
excessive force by security forces. The inquiry should include a full accounting of
the dead and injured, the circumstances surrounding each incident resulting in
death or injury, the extent to which government security forces were implicated in
human rights violations.
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