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No Country for Ethiopian Human Rights Abusers (Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam)
The U.S. Justice Department encourages Ethiopians to report human-rights abusers hiding in plain view in America
They are hidden in plain view. They have been hiding in plain view in the U.S. for over 30 years. They have been hiding in plain...
The Simplest Step Ethiopians Can Take to Protect Themselves From Excessive Gov't Surveillance
BY JESSICA MCKENZIE
The Ethiopian government has at their disposal a formidable collection of surveillance technologies, and can intrusively monitor writers and activists at home and abroad. In late April the governmentarrested six independent...
Zone 9 journalists & bloggers among 2014 EHSNA honorees
Honorees of the Fourth Ethiopian Heritage Festival
Poet Laureate, Young Scholar and Journalists to be honored:
• An Ethiopian Poet Tsegaye Gebremedhin will be honored for his Contribution to the Advancement of Humanity
• The Zone Nine bloggers:...
INVESTIGATION STALLS IN CASE OF NINE DETAINED JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERS
Nine journalists who were arrested on 25 and 26 April continue to be detained pending trial. When the latest detention hearing in their case was held on 14 June, a judge gave the police yet more time to complete their investigation and finally...
Why I am boycotting Ȼoca Ȼola [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Coca Cola is NOT the real thing
Diaspora Ethiopians are expressing their outrage on social and online media and calling for a boycott of Coca Cola Company for its unethical, arbitrary and unfair dealings with Ethiopia’s pop music superstar...
Yemen’s traffickers run torture camps often with cooperation of government officials
Belkis WilleJune 10, 2014 14:04
Commentary: Migrants trying to reach Saudi border are held for money and face unimaginable horrors.
SANAA, Yemen — Late one night last fall, I sat on a half-rotten mattress in a desolate square in the northern...
Ethiopian journalist branded a 'terrorist' and locked up for 18 years wins 2014 Golden Pen of Freedom (William Turvill)
Ethiopian journalist branded a ‘terrorist’ and locked up for 18 years wins 2014 Golden Pen of Freedom
William Turvill 09 June 2014
Eskinder Nega (pictured) has been jailed on at least seven occasions in his country. On the latest...
''Ayzoh Eskinder! Ayzoh!'' - Martin Schibbye’s acceptance speech on behalf of Eskinder Nega
Acceptance speech on behalf of Eskinder Nega, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, Torino, Italy, 9 June 2014.
Ladies and gentlemen – members of the press.
I really wish I did not have to do this.
This morning, I thought,...