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Letter from an Ethiopian prison [theguardian]
Natnael Feleke has been imprisoned for a year without trial. In a letter smuggled out of jail, he asks the US secretary of state to stop supporting the regime
Dear John Kerry,
I first came to know about you back in 2004, during the US presidential...
Ethiopia's Zone 9 Bloggers: 12 Months in Detention, No Justice [freedomhouse]
Washington
April 24, 2015
Marking the one year anniversary of Ethiopia’s arrests of the Zone 9 bloggers and journalists, Freedom House released the following statement:
“These bloggers and journalists have spent a year in...
Europe response to Mediterranean migrant and refugee tragedy falls short[Oxfam]
Europe’s leaders have just missed a crucial opportunity to make a real difference in the lives and deaths of the people suffering daily in the Mediterranean. Instead of heeding calls to restore immediately a search-and-rescue operation in...
Ethiopia: Free Zone 9 Bloggers, Journalists [HRW]
A Year After Arrests, Drop Politically Motivated Charges
(Nairobi) – Ethiopian authorities should immediately release nine bloggers and journalists arrested a year ago who are being prosecuted on politically motivated charges, Human Rights...
Ethiopian bloggers on trial in case seen as crackdown on free expression [washingtonpost]
By Simona Foltyn
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — They met online in 2010 while raising money for a charity case: nine young, university-educated Ethiopian professionals. Eventually, they decided to launch a blog about social and civic issues in...
US official praises Ethiopian ‘democracy,’ rest of world begs to differ [aljazeera]
Mohammed Ademo
During a press briefing in Addis Ababa on April 16, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman praised Ethiopia as a democracy, suggesting it had made great strides toward an open and inclusive...