Zone9ers next hearing

Three members of the blogging collectives namely, Befeqadu, Abel and Mahlet will be brought to Arada first instance bench on June 29, 2014 around 10...

DLA Piper charges Al Amoudi and cohorts $5,000 for 8 hours of “work”

Elias Kifle | June 27th, 2014 Ethiopian Review DLA Piper, the notorious law firm that represents blood thirsty dictators around the world, has been after me...

500 prisoners benefit from royal pardon

JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS  Saturday 28 June 2014 Prisons in Jeddah have begun releasing prisoners accused of violating public rights in line with the directives of Custodian...

Norway minister threatens to deport Eritrean migrants

Deputy justice minister in Eritrea for talks over repatriation of 500 migrants amid fears Norway is a soft touch for asylum seekers Mark Anderson  Eritrean and...

This is Zone Nine: The Continued Imprisonment of Six Ethiopian Bloggers

 Mayukh Sen There’s a prison, hidden in the suburbs of Addis Ababa, named Kality. Home to many of Ethiopia’s political prisoners, the prison is divided into...

No Country for Ethiopian Human Rights Abusers (Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam)

The U.S. Justice Department encourages Ethiopians to report human-rights abusers hiding in plain view in America They are hidden in plain view. They have been...

The Simplest Step Ethiopians Can Take to Protect Themselves From Excessive Gov’t Surveillance

BY JESSICA MCKENZIE The Ethiopian government has at their disposal a formidable collection of surveillance technologies, and can intrusively monitor writers and activists at home and...

Zone 9 journalists & bloggers among 2014 EHSNA honorees

Honorees of the Fourth Ethiopian Heritage Festival Poet Laureate, Young Scholar and Journalists to be honored: • An Ethiopian Poet Tsegaye Gebremedhin will be honored for...