BY AARON MAASHO | REUTERS Ethiopia pardoned on Saturday an opposition leader with British citizenship who had been sentenced to death, the latest in a series of pardons and releases of jailed dissidents announced in the wake of years of violent unrest.
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By Ian Birrell, AN EXPLOSIVE row has erupted between diplomats and Ministers over their reluctance to help a British man on death row in Ethiopia. A series of extraordinary emails, obtained by The Mail on Sunday, reveal officials’ increasing frustration at political inaction over Andargachew Tsege. Tsege, 59, a father-of-three from London, was snatched at […]
Continue ReadingBy Abebe Gellaw, THE United States Attorney’s Office has obtained an arrest warrant in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the Ethiopian embassy gunman, Solomon Tadess Gebre Silasse. The security attache, who dramatically shot at peaceful protesters at the Ethiopian embassy, fled to Ethiopia to escape prosecution. Bill Miller, Public Information Officer […]
Continue ReadingBy Hindessa Abdul, SECRETARY general of the outlawed Ethiopian opposition group Ginbot 7, Andargachew Tsige, was detained in the Yemeni capital Sana’a on June 24; and if we have to believe the official version, he was extradited to the security officials in Addis the same day. Yemen, which never misses the top ten spot on […]
Continue ReadingBy Martin Plaut, THE position of Andargachew Tsege is now clear: he is being held by the Ethiopian government after being illegally extradited from Yemen. Mr Andargachew, a British subject, now faces torture and possible death, since he was found guilty of treason in absentia. This is a statement from a spokesman for Britain’s the Foreign […]
Continue ReadingBy Martin Plaut, THE Foreign Office has been accused of failing to act to prevent the extradition to Ethiopia of an opposition leader facing the death penalty. Andargachew Tsige, a British national, is secretary general of an exiled Ethiopian opposition movement, Ginbot 7. He was arrested at Sana’a airport on 23 June by the Yemeni security […]
Continue ReadingBy AFP, ETHIOPIA said on Thursday it wanted to extradite the leader of an outlawed opposition group arrested in Yemen to face terrorism charges. “He is a criminal, and he definitely will have his day in court,” government spokesperson Getachew Reda told AFP. Andargachew Tsige, Secretary General of Ginbot 7 – labelled a terrorist organisation under […]
Continue ReadingBy World Bulletin, YEMENI security forces have detained an Ethiopian opposition leader at Sanaa international airport. Andargachew Tsegie, second-in-command of Ginbot 7 opposition movement, was arrested while in transit at Sanaa International Airport on June 23, 2014, on his way to Eritrea, the movement said on its official website.
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