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Interview: Inside What Was Ethiopia’s Jail Ogaden

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Until recently, Jail Ogaden in Ethiopia’s eastern Somali Region housed thousands of prisoners, many of them illegally arrested government critics and opposition figures who had been detained for years. Torture, rape and death were common in Jail Ogaden. Then, in April 2018, after protests, upheaval, and the surprise resignation of the country’s authoritarian prime minister, a new reform-driven government came to power led by Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed.

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