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Ethiopian Oromo boys imprisoned

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    The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has released a list of 26 Ethiopian Oromo boys in detention at Gabode prison in Djibouti, some as young as 10 years. According to the report, the children were among a group arrested in the street after they arrived in Djibouti from Ethiopia as refugees. Describing prison conditions as “suffocating and dirty”, the report said the International Secretariat of OMCT had already expressed “grave concern” over 29 Oromo boys allegedly detained and subjected to sexual abuse by fellow inmates and prison guards in Gabode for the last six months.

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