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Press Release: Allow Ethiopian opposition politician to obtain treatment abroad for torture-sustained injuries [Amnesty International]
The Ethiopian authorities must allow an opposition politician who is now unconscious due to injuries sustained in torture and other ill-treatment to obtain life-saving medical treatment abroad, said Amnesty International in a letter to Ethiopian...
OGADEN: Ethiopia's Hidden Shame [Graham Peebles (Video)]
Ethiopia is regularly cited as an African success story by donor nations; the economy is growing they cry, more children are attending school and health care is improving. Well GDP figures and millennium development statistics reveal only a...
Ethiopia: Protest Crackdown Killed Hundreds [HRW]
(Nairobi) – Ethiopian security forces have killed more than 400 protesters and others, and arrested tens of thousands more during widespread protests in the Oromia region since November 2015. The Ethiopian government should urgently support...
SEC: Ethiopia’s Electric Utility Sold Unregistered Bonds in U.S.
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Washington D.C., June 8, 2016 —
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Ethiopia’s electric utility has agreed to pay nearly $6.5 million to settle charges that it violated U.S. securities...
Ethiopia: Detainees beaten and forced to appear before court inadequately dressed
Amnesty International
Authorities in Ethiopia should immediately stop the ill treatment of political opposition members and human rights defenders who were beaten in detention and then forced to appear before the court inadequately dressed,...
Ethiopian regime denied family visit to imprisoned prominent journalist
ESAT
Family and friends of Eskinder Nega, a prominent Ethiopian journalist and one of the many prisoners of conscience in the country’s dungeons, have not been allowed to visit him since last week.
Eskinder was sentenced to 18 years in prison...