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...
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...
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...
