LONDON (AP) — London police said Sunday they arrested a convicted asylum-seeker who was mistakenly released from prison.

The Metropolitan Police said Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was arrested in the Finsbury Park area in north London.

Kebatu, 38, was released from prison on Friday in a blunder that has embarrassed the government.

The migrant was sentenced in September to 12 months in prison for five offenses, including the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in July in Epping, on the outskirts of London, just over a week after he had arrived in England by boat.

His arrest earlier this year had triggered a wave of anti-migrant protests in London and other cities.

Thousands of people protested outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, northeast of London, where he was staying

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