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Arabsat locates jamming source in Ethiopian territories
MAY 29, 2014 15.08 EUROPE/LONDON BY ROBERT BRIEL
Arab Satellite Communication Organisation (Arabsat) has announced that many TV channels on-board its fleet of satellites have been the subject of intentional jamming for the past week up to...
Forced to give birth in chains: Sudan woman's cruel treatment after marrying non-muslim-EXPRESS
THE husband of a Sudanese woman sentenced to death for marrying outside her faith has spoken out after his wife was forced to give birth in a squalid prison.
By: Sarah Ann Harris
Published: Thu, May 29, 2014
Meriam Ibrahim was condemned to...
Ethiopia holds editor-in-chief without charge
New York, May 28, 2014–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the detention of a journalist without charge since Monday and calls on Ethiopian authorities to release him immediately. An Ethiopian court on Tuesday extended by 14...
Ethiopia tightens its grip on media ahead of 2015 elections
Jessica White
“The current regime follows this pattern: immediately before elections, they start to muzzle every critical voice,” protests Endalk Chala, a co-founder and member of the Ethiopian blogging collective called “Zone 9”...
Ethiopia: Crimes Against University Students and Humanity (Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam)
On May 2, 2014, BBC reported that the security forces of the regime in Ethiopia had massacred at least 47 university and high school students in the town of Ambo 80 miles west of the capital Addis Ababa. The regime dismissed the massacre and...
Yemen: Migrants Held at ‘Torture Camps’ Human Right Watch
Hold Traffickers, Officials Accountable for Role in Abuses
(Sanaa) –Traffickers in Yemen hold African migrants in detention camps, torturing them to extort payment from their families, with the complicity of local officials, Human Rights Watch...
''Medrek'' successful demonstration, blue party (Semayawi) took a part
Medrek Party (Federal Democratic Unity Forum) did a demonstration in Adddis abeba today. Hundreds of thousands of protesters demanded the TPLF Ethiopian regime to stop killing students,to stop evicting farmers and grabbing their land in the...