Students released from detention

Ethiopian police have released about 1,200 students arrested during last week’s riots, from a holding centre in Sendefa police college, about 20 km outside the capital, Addis Ababa. Three lorry-loads of students were driven to Addis Ababa University, where they were met by their families, Reuters news agency said on Thursday. It was not clear whether all students detained during the riots and demonstrations had been released. “We will not know if they have freed all of us [until] when we go back to class and see who is missing,” one of the released students was reported as saying. Local sources told IRIN that there was confidence that most of the students arrested last week had now been released. Students and high school children also demonstrated in regions outside Addis Ababa last week, but there have been no details on detentions or releases outside the capital, local sources told IRIN.