NEKEMTE, ETHIOPIA -- During the six months that 25-year-old Aman was detained in an Addis Ababa prison, he alleges, police kicked and punched him and kept him for weeks on end in a tiny cell with his hands bound as if always in prayer.
Then there was the day that Aman, a second-year law student at the time, went before a judge and found himself correcting her on the Ethiopian criminal code. She had granted prosecutors' request to detain him for three weeks of investigation, a week longer than the law allows.
"I could not have words to express the situation, it is so difficult," said Aman, who was never charged with a crime and eventually released.
"They appoint judges who have no legal knowledge of law, who learn about the law for six months and sit at the court."
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