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Ethiopia: Commissioner Protests EU diplomats’ Expulsion Sun. October 22, 2006 01:56 pm. - Bonny Apunyu (SomaliNet) Following Khartoum’s expulsion of two European Union diplomats, EU Development Commissioner, Louis Michel has protested the move to Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, his spokesperson said Sunday,-dpa The two EU diplomats were arrested by Ethiopian police on Thursday last week for allegedly attempting to smuggle two Ethiopian bandits across the border to Kenya. According to The EU Commissioner’s spokesman, Michel was also worried about the fate of an Ethiopian woman who worked for the EU, whose whereabouts were not known at the moment. The EU would "continue to apply pressure." Human rights watchdog Amnesty International said last week that Yalemzewd Bekele, an Ethiopian lawyer working for the EU delegation in Addis Ababa, was one of those arrested on Thursday. "Amnesty is concerned that she is at high risk of torture or other ill-treatment," the group warned in a statement, adding that Bekele was apparently arrested in relation with the distribution of an opposition plan for non-violent civil disobedience. The two expelled EU diplomats are Swedish official Bjoern Jonsson and his Italian colleague Enrico Sborgi, members of the EU commission delegation in Addis Ababa. News Category: East Africa Latest Headlines Latest News Tanzania: Comoros president hails Tanzania as l... Somalia: Steps being taken to free two foreign jour... Soccer: Kenya Tusker Football Club sacks coach Sudan: Darfur police raid victims shun being ai... Botswana: Two South Africans jailed for 18 years in ... Sudan: Sudanese passenger plane hijacked after ... Egypt: Israeli Defences Minister in Cairo for talks ... Angola: Ruling party may clean sweep in Angolan poll... Somalia: President Yousuf, Prime Minister ink deal... Zimbabwe: President Mugabe heckled, jeered in parlia... More News...