In Africa’s east, Eritrea has released 21 female Christian prisoners but the country’s forces stand accused of attacking churches in the troubled Tigray region of neighboring Ethiopia.
The women, all reportedly young mothers, had been held in an island prison on the Red Sea since last August.
They were arrested in 2017 after a series of raids on underground churches by the Eritrean authorities.
Many of their husbands were conscripts, leaving their children without anyone to care for them, human rights group Release International reports.
They are the latest Christians to be freed from prison in a string of unexpected prisoner releases over the past half-year.
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