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Thousands of Ethiopians tortured by brutal government security forces... while Britain hands over almost £1 BILLION in aid money [THE DAILY MAIL]
Amnesty International says 5,000 people tortured, raped and ‘disappeared’
Over the last three years the UK Government has given Ethiopia £1 billion
It pocketed £261.5 million in 2012 and £284.4 million in 2013
By VANESSA ALLEN...
Ethiopia Advocate Ras Seymour Mclean Passes Away
By George Ruddock
29/10/2014
Jamaican-born activist lost his battle with a short illness on Oct 6
RAS SEYMOUR McLean, a well-known advocate for the return of priceless Ethiopian relics and hundreds of books and manuscripts of Ethiopian...
Temesgen Desalegn – an Ethiopian embodiment of courage [By Hindessa Abdul]
In one of his articles Temesgen discusses how the struggle of the Ethiopian opposition and other activists were reduced from raising political and civil liberty issues to merely demanding the release of opposition figures or imprisoned journalists....
David Cameron writes to Ethiopian PM on behalf of British political dissident on death row [The Independent]
Andargachew “Andy” Tsege, a critic of the Ethiopian regime, was kidnapped in Yemen
The Prime Minister has personally intervened in the case of a British father-of-three facing the death sentence in Ethiopia, after the man’s children...
The Thugplomacy of the TPLF [Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam]
I have often contended that the ruling regime in Ethiopia controlled by the Tigrean Liberation Front (TPLF) is a thugtatorship, the highest stage of African dictatorship. If democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the...
CPJ: Ethiopian authorities convict journalist in Addis Ababa
Nairobi, October 15, 2014–An Ethiopian court on Monday convicted journalist and magazine owner Temesghen Desalegn in connection with a 2012 defamation case, according to news reports and local journalists.
The Federal High Court in the...
