Tag: breaking

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...

Nine federal police, one soldier dead as residents of Gondar defend...

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...

Exiled prominent journalist, activist wrote open letter to Ethiopia’s security chief...

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...

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...

Press Release: Allow Ethiopian opposition politician to obtain treatment abroad for...

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...

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