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Ethiopian journalist: 'I was jailed and tortured' [DW]
He is one of Ethiopia’s most critical journalists. Muluken Tesfaw is in Europe and too scared to return. He doesn’t want to share his location, but talked to DW about press freedom declining dramatically in his country.
According to...
The “Law” as State Terrorism in Apartheid Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: This is the third installment [1] in a series of ongoing commentaries that I expect to post regularly under the rubric, “Apartheid in Ethiopia”.
The twin aims of the series “Apartheid in Ethiopia” are:
1) to demonstrate...
Ethiopia must release opposition politician held for Facebook posts [AMNESTY]
PRESS RELEASE
MAY 6, 2016
The Ethiopian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release a prominent opposition politician facing a possible death sentence on trumped-up terrorism charges over comments he posted on Facebook, said...
Ethiopia: Bekele Gerba’s Trial in T-TPLF Monkey Kourt [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
In American legal lore, there is the Scopes Monkey Trial.
In 1925, a high school teacher named John Scopes was prosecuted in Tennessee for teaching human evolution in a public school [violating the Butler Act]. Throughout the U.S., the Scopes...
Ethiopia hands dissident 9-year jail term [THE FINANCIAL TIMES]
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The large Saudi Star farm in Gambella. Its owners want to grow 140,000 tonnes of rice by 2018
Tom Burgis in New York
An Ethiopian court has handed down a nine-year jail sentence to a leading dissident from the restive...