Minister Desalegn addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York
Martin Plaut is a journalist specialising in the Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, and senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. But the government steadfastly denies that the East African nation has political prisoners.
In a statement posted on Facebook, the Office of Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, said an infamous detention center Maekalwi located in Addis Ababa will also be closed.
It remains unclear how many political prisoners are being held in the country or when they will be released.
"I'm writing you this struggling with my tears", wrote renowned blogger and former detainee Befeqadu Hailu. We are calling on the Ethiopian authorities to implement today's decision as quickly as possible by immediately and unconditionally releasing them.
Ethiopia's government has attempted to downplay the prime minister's announcement.
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Rallies over land rights then broadened into demonstrations over political restrictions and perceived rights abuses, including the incarceration of Merera Gudina and Bekele Gerba - leaders of the opposition group the Oromo Federalist Congress.
"Potentially big news", Human Rights Watch researcher Felix Horne said on Twitter after the announcement, as some observers waited to see the government's next move.
Opposition supporters and activists accuse the Ethiopian government of using the detention center to coerce confessions from suspects usually charged under an anti-terror law.
"The crackdown on the political opposition saw mass arbitrary arrests, torture and other ill treatment, unfair trials and violations of the rights to freedom of expression and association", rights group Amnesty International has said.
The Associated Press and other news organizations interpreted the remark to mean a wider population of people in prison, including opposition figures and journalists, as alleged political prisoners.
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