A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 95 Para Country Date Type Mandate 67. Eritrea 08/11/06 JUA WGAD; RINT; TOR; 68. Ethiopia 05/04/06 JUA WGAD; FRDX; TOR; Allegations transmitted Immanuel Andegergesh and Kibrom Firemichael and ten other unidentified members of the Rema Church in Adi-Quala town, and one hundred and sixty unidentified members of banned Christian churches, including Kale Hiwot (Word of God) Church, the Full Gospel Church, the Church of the Living God and the Rema church in Mendefera town. On 15 October 2006, 12 members of the Rema church were arrested in Adi-Quala town, south of Mendefera, for taking part in Christian worship in a private home. Two of them, Immanuel Andegergesh and Kibrom Firemichael, died in a nearby army camp as a result of torture to make them abandon their faith. On 15 and 16 October 2006, 160 members of banned Christian churches were arrested at their homes in Mendefera town, 50 km south of the capital Asmara. It is not known where they are detained and there are concerns that they may be subjected to torture and ill-treatment in an effort to force them to sign a document to agree to stop worshipping. Abraham Roda, farmer; Abraham Tula, former Sidama Development Corporation employee; Abure Assefa, civil servant; Dessalegne Gassamo, USAID advisor on education; Edasso Ebissa, farmer; Musse Alemayehu, civil servant at the agricultural department; Tadesse Washo, nurse; Tefera Janba, student of Awassa Tabour School; Yosef Lalimo, Awassa Tabour school student; and approximately 50 other persons in detention after their arrest in Awassa town, State of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Government Response

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