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Dispatches: Ethiopia’s Opposition Leaders on Hunger Strike [HRW]
Protesting Against Mistreatment in Prison
Felix Horne
Researcher, Horn of Africa@felixhorne1
It has been nine days since prominent Ethiopian opposition leader Bekele Gerba and several other senior members of the Oromo Federalist Congress...
ODF Statement on continued people’s struggle in Ethiopia
Reiterating our unwavering support for non-violent resistance by the Oromo people and others in Ethiopia for human rights, freedom, and democracy we want to make one thing abundantly clear: No amount of violent suppression by the TPLF junta...
Nine federal police, one soldier dead as residents of Gondar defend themselves from brutal forces of the regime
ESAT News (July 15, 2016)
Unrest in the historic town of Gondar continued on Thursday, the third day of protest against the tyrannical regime in Ethiopia. Video footages reaching ESAT show people wielding their rifles and guns, chanting war...
Exiled prominent journalist, activist wrote open letter to Ethiopia’s security chief following threats to their family back home by security operatives [ESAT]
ESAT News (July 6, 2016)
Exiled journalist Sisay Agena and Tamagn Beyene, an activist and a well-known critic of the Ethiopian government wrote an open letter to the country’s security chief, Getachew Asefa following intimidation against...
Eritrea escapes U.N. Security Council referral over human rights [Reuters]
By Tom Miles
GENEVA (Reuters) – Eritrea may escape censure by the U.N. Security Council over its human rights record after the U.N. Human Rights Council passed a watered-down resolution against the African state on Friday.
A U.N. investigation...
Exiled Ethiopian journalists on hunger strike [BBC]
Emmanuel Igunza
BBC Africa, Nairobi
A group of Ethiopian journalists living in exile in Kenya are holding a hunger strike to protest against the treatment of an opposition politician who is critically ill in Ethiopia.
The authorities have denied...