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 well as the zone-nine bloggers. I say unjustly detained because none of them...

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 in prison for “provocation and dissemination of inaccurate information.”...

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 in 2012 and £284.4 million in 2013 By VANESSA ALLEN...

In one of his articles Temesgen discusses how the struggle of the Ethiopian opposition and other activists were reduced from raising political and civil liberty issues to merely demanding the release of opposition figures or imprisoned journalists....

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 father-of-three facing the death sentence in Ethiopia, after the man’s children...

I have often contended that the ruling regime in Ethiopia controlled by the Tigrean Liberation Front (TPLF) is a thugtatorship, the highest stage of African dictatorship.  If democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the...

Nairobi, October 15, 2014–An Ethiopian court on Monday convicted journalist and magazine owner Temesghen Desalegn in connection with a 2012 defamation case, according to news reports and local journalists. The Federal High Court in the...