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Article: Selassie's Relatives Free

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May 22, 1988
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The government freed the daughter and six other relatives of the late emperor Haile Selassie who have been imprisoned since he was overthrown in a 1974 Marxist revolution, the Ethiopian News Agency reported.

The government-owned agency gave few details of the release. There was no mention of three grandsons of Haile Selassie who also were detained ...

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