Authorities and security forces in Ethiopia’s contested Western Tigray Zone are arbitrarily detaining ethnic Tigrayans and severely restricting their movements, employment, and access to services. The Ethiopian government and their international partners seem determined to ignore the treatment of Tigrayans as effectively second-class citizens. The Ethiopian government should end the discriminatory system in Western Tigray and commit to suspend, investigate, and hold accountable interim authorities implicated in serious abuses. (Nairobi) – Authorities and security forces in Ethiopia ’s contested Western Tigray Zone are arbitrarily detaining ethnic Tigrayans and imposing a discriminatory system that severely restricts their movements, employment, and access to services, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities’ unrelenting abuses have forced Tigrayans to flee the area nearly four years after a truce for the 2020-2022 conflict in northern Ethiopia.…