Details sought on secret detainees
From Times Wire Reports
Ethiopia is under pressure to release details on detainees from 19 countries at secret prisons on its soil.
Canada, Eritrea and Sweden have been lobbying for information about their citizens. Human rights groups say hundreds of prisoners, including women and children, have been transferred secretly and illegally to the prisons.
The Associated Press has reported that CIA and FBI agents have been interrogating the detainees.
Ethiopian officials have refused to acknowledge the existence of such prisons.
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