Human Rights Watch urges African leaders to tell Abiy Ahmed to release thousands of Tigrayans and address “war crimes” taking place in Tigray and rest of Ethiopia

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Human Rights Watch on Friday called on African leaders meeting in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, between February 5 and February 6, for the African Union summit, to urge Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali to release thousands of Tigrayans being held across the country. They should also use their time in Africa’s second most populous nation to address “rampant abuses occurring in the conflict in Ethiopia.”