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Ethiopia to free 4,000 inmates as it steps up war against coronavirus

Ethiopia plans to free more than 4,000 prisoners holed up in its prisons as a measure to curb the spread of coronavirus.

Attorney General Adanech Abebe said that the country would release inmates who were convicted of ‘petty crimes’, those with less than a year remaining on their sentences, and women with babies.

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