EHPM - Ethiopian Health Professionals' Movement

URGENT CALL TO ACTION: A DOCTOR IS BEING TORTURED! ​It is truly heartbreaking and deeply agonizing! ​We have just received confirmed, horrific insider reports from the detention center where Dr. Habtamu Alemu is being held. What is happening to him is not just an arrest..it is a brutal, systematic violation of human dignity. ​He is locked alone inside a suffocatingly small cell measuring just 1 meter by 1.80 meters. ​He is being completely denied basic bathroom access, forced to endure the absolute degradation of relieving himself inside that tiny room. Insider sources have confirmed that last night, police officers brutally beat him. To break his spirit, the cruel station police kept him bound and tied up for two consecutive days. ​This is living proof that while the Dire Dawa police speak of justice with their mouths, their actions are pure oppression and cruelty. Not only have they detained him without justification, but they are actively crushing his fundamental human rights every single hour.