The Ethiopian government has freed seven Oromo Liberation Front

The Ethiopian government has freed seven Oromo Liberation Front, or OLF, members who have been in prison for more than four years. A spokesperson for OLF Lemi Gemechu told VOA’s Horn of Africa Service that the seven were released on Thursday from the different prisons where they had been held…Some of the released detainees are members of the executive committee while others are central committee and executive members of the OLF…Meanwhile, the family of Taye Dendea, the detained former Ethiopian state minister of peace, has expressed their disappointment with the Supreme Court’s decision to deny him bail…The former state minister was arrested in December last year after he posted comments criticizing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Police accused him of collaborating with groups aiming to destabilize Ethiopia. (VOA)