Human Rights Watch interviewed by phone a total of nine relatives, defense team lawyers, and an OLF party official, and reviewed court documents and medical records.
Oromia police authorities have repeatedly violated the detainees' due process rights, forcibly disappearing them or holding them incommunicado, denying them access to their lawyers and family members for weeks or months - and at times up to eight months - and frequently moving them between makeshift and official detention sites, further hampering their families' access.
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