Tag: breaking

The trial of the Zone9 bloggers and journalist allies adjourned for...

The trial is re-adjourned for 4th of November 2014 for the 10th times in a row. In an opening defense statement the bloggers and...

Britain axes aid to Ethiopian police amid human rights outcry [Telegraph]

Document warning that aid programme posed 'high' risk to human rights deleted from Government website as £27 million aid scheme axed Britain has given £1...

Temesghen Dessalegn and Abraha Desta [Prof. Mesfin Wolde-Mariam]

31/10/2014 Within the last one year several young women and men have been unjustly detained and silenced. Among these are several journalists and political leaders, as...

Press Releases: U.S. Deeply Concerned by Sentence of Ethiopian Journalist

Washington, D.C. (United States)  October 30, 2014 The United States is deeply concerned by the October 27 sentencing of Ethiopian journalist Temesgen Desalegn to three years...

Thousands of Ethiopians tortured by brutal government security forces… while Britain...

Amnesty International says 5,000 people tortured, raped and 'disappeared' Over the last three years the UK Government has given Ethiopia £1 billion It pocketed £261.5 million...

Temesgen Desalegn – an Ethiopian embodiment of courage [By Hindessa Abdul]

In one of his articles Temesgen discusses how the struggle of the Ethiopian opposition and other activists were reduced from raising political and civil...

David Cameron writes to Ethiopian PM on behalf of British political...

Andargachew “Andy” Tsege, a critic of the Ethiopian regime, was kidnapped in Yemen The Prime Minister has personally intervened in the case of a British...

The Thugplomacy of the TPLF [Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam]

I have often contended that the ruling regime in Ethiopia controlled by the Tigrean Liberation Front (TPLF) is a thugtatorship, the highest stage of...

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