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Ethiopia: Collective Punishment by Internet Clampdown [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Last week, for the third time in the past year, the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) unplugged the internet.
The reasons are a bit fuzzy. Some T-TPLF officials say the shutdown aims to prevent “student cheating...
Ethiopia turns off internet nationwide as students sit exams [theguardian]
Alex Hern
The country has closed its digital borders to prevent leaks during tests after papers were posted online by activists last year
Ethiopia has shut off internet access to its citizens, according to reports from inside the...
Empty Suit, Director–General, Gates World Health Organization (G-WHO)[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
I knew from the get go that the whole WHO “election” for “director-general” was a sham, a set up. Just like the 2015 Ethiopia “election” which resulted in a 100 percent “victory” for the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s...
Ethiopian court jails politician for over 6 years (aljazeera)
Former opposition spokesperson Yonatan Tesfaye sentenced over posts criticising the government’s response to protestsa
An Ethiopian court sentenced opposition politician Yonatan Tesfaye to six and a half years in prison on Thursday,...
Ethiopia: Journalist’s guilty verdict a further slap in the face for justice (AMNESTY)
Responding to reports that Ethiopia’s Federal High Court has found prominent Ethiopian journalist Getachew Shiferaw guilty of “provocation of revolt,” Muthoni Wanyeki, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn...
Ethiopia: Reeyot Alemu’s Open letter to the World Health Assembly
As a victim of torture, I oppose Dr. Tedros Adhanom’s candidacy for Director-General of WHO
by Reeyot Alemu
My name is Reeyot Alemu. I am a journalist and former prisoner of conscience in Ethiopia. I was a columnist for Feteh (Justice) newspaper,...