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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 of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah as part of the royal amnesty granted...
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 Sudanese asylum seekers in Tel Aviv protest against Israel’s recent...
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 eight zones. The last of these zones, Zone Eight, is home to detained journalists,...
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 hiding in plain view in the U.S. for over 30 years. They have been hiding in plain...
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 abroad. In late April the governmentarrested six independent...
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 his Contribution to the Advancement of Humanity
• The Zone Nine bloggers:...
INVESTIGATION STALLS IN CASE OF NINE DETAINED JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERS
Nine journalists who were arrested on 25 and 26 April continue to be detained pending trial. When the latest detention hearing in their case was held on 14 June, a judge gave the police yet more time to complete their investigation and finally...
Why I am boycotting Ȼoca Ȼola [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Coca Cola is NOT the real thing
Diaspora Ethiopians are expressing their outrage on social and online media and calling for a boycott of Coca Cola Company for its unethical, arbitrary and unfair dealings with Ethiopia’s pop music superstar...