Bloggers Befeqadu Hailu & Seyoum Teshome, activists Blen Mesfin, Eyasped Tesfaye released after Command Post detention
Befeqadu Hailu, a member of the Zone9 blogging collective , who was detained by the Ethiopian Command Post for an alleged interview he gave for the VoA Amharic, has been released today.
He was held at a military camp farther South of Addis...
Human rights groups to Ethiopia: Where is jailed journalist?
Washingtonpost
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Human rights groups are asking Ethiopia’s government to immediately disclose the whereabouts of a popular local journalist who has been behind bars since October 2014.
The Association for Human Rights...
Ethiopia: detained journalist missing, denied access to family and medical care
Ethiopian authorities should immediately disclose the location of Temesgen Desalegn, who was jailed on spurious charges two years ago, and give him access to medical care, said the Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia (AHRE) and DefendDefenders...
Ethiopia arrests top Oromo opposition politician after Europe Parliament speech [washingtonpost]
By Paul Schemm
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — A top opposition politician from Ethiopia’s restive Oromo ethnic group was arrested after he spoke out against the country’s state of emergency in front of the European Parliament, the government...
Cuba's Fidel Castro, former president, dies aged 90
BBC
Fidel Castro, Cuba’s former president and leader of the Communist revolution, has died aged 90, state TV has announced.
It provided no further details.
Fidel Castro ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost half a century before...
Ethiopia 2016: We MUST Remember November! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. For not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are also responsible for what we are doing with those memories.” Elie Weisel
Ethiopian Martyrs of June and November, 2005
On...
Ethiopian Security Re-Arrest Rights Activist, Zone9 Blogger Befeqadu Hailu
Security member of the command post established to oversee Ethiopia’s six-month State of Emergency have this morning re-arrested human rights activist and blogger Befeqadu Hailu, Addis Standard confirmed.
According to information, two...
#FreeThem: Unjustly jailed Eskinder Nega, Ethiopia [HRW]
Eskinder Nega has been imprisoned eight times for his writings over the years. His experience encapsulates the situation facing many of Ethiopia’s independent journalists, who must choose between self-censorship, arrest or living in exile....