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Reuters AlertNet Lite - Amnesty appeals for Muslim detainees in Ethiopia

Reuters AlertNet Lite - Amnesty appeals for Muslim detainees in Ethiopia: "NAIROBI, May 24 (Reuters) - Scores of those rounded up by Kenya after a New Year conflict in Somalia remain 'arbitrarily detained' in Ethiopia where they were sent for interrogation, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
In a case some rights campaigners have dubbed an 'African Guantanamo', the British-based group called on Kenyan, Somali and Ethiopian authorities to come clean over the whereabouts and fates of some 66 Muslim detainees unaccounted for in Ethiopia."

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