The whereabouts of opposition Ethiopian lawmaker Christian Tadele, detained in relation to ongoing the violence in the country’s Amhara region, is still not known, his lawyer says.
He was detained by the security forces along with Kassa Teshager, a member of city council in the capital, Addis Ababa, earlier this month.
The lawyer who represents them both, Henok Aklilu, has told the BBC that the two politicians have not been visited by their representatives or their family members and have not appeared in court.
The BBC’s attempts to get a response from the police have not been successful.
Mr Christian and Dr Kassa are two of the several people arrested as intense fighting in Amhara prompted the government to declare a six-month state of emergency last week.
Fighting has subsided in urban areas after the army pushed back militias that managed to enter most of the biggest cities in the region.
But in rural villages violence continues to be reported. The authorities say it has been contained while the militias say they have captured dozens of soldiers.
Meanwhile the US’s special envoy to the Horn of Africa, Mike Hammer, has travelled to Belgium to discuss with the EU possible ways of finding peaceful resolutions for violence in Amhara and Oromia regions.
Source: BBC