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Prominent Dissidents Re-Arrested in Ethiopia (VOA)
Police in Ethiopia have arrested several prominent dissidents, some of whom were released from prison just weeks earlier.
Journalist Eskinder Nega, blogger Befekadu Hailu and opposition politician Andualem Arage were among those detained Sunday,...
Ministry of foreign affairs spokesperson linked with prison torture
by Ethiopia Observer
A prisoner charged with armed conspiracy with the Ginbot 7 told a court in Addis Ababa that he was subjected to cruel, inhuman treatment in Addis Ababa central prison (Maekelawi), including receiving beatings and punches...
He Owns Much of Ethiopia. The Saudis Won’t Say Where They’re Hiding Him. (The New Work Times)
By Danny Hakim and Ben Hubbard
He supplies coffee to Starbucks. He owns much of Ethiopia. And he is known as “Sheikh Mo” in the Clintons’ circle.
But the gilded life of Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi took a sharp turn in...
Jailed, freed, defiant: Ethiopian journalist fights on (The Citizen)
by Chris Stein/AFP
More than six years in jail have not blunted Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega’s criticism of the government that put him there.
He was released in February, as part of a broad prisoner amnesty, and remains just as defiant,...
Oppositions Out; OPDOs in. (Befqabu Z Hailu)
A few months ago, when OPDO officials adopted dissent voices as their own, I joke-tweeted saying [in AM] “now OPDOs are struggling our struggle; we will see if they would be detained on our behalf”. It seems it has already become...
Killing of civilians by Ethiopia troops no accident: residents (News24)
Addis Ababa – Residents of a town in Ethiopia’s restive Oromia region on Monday disputed the government’s characterisation of a deadly shooting that left nine civilians dead as an accident.
Ethiopian state media said Sunday...