By Matthew Russell Lee, THE attack on Ethiopia’s Zone 9 bloggers, which Inner City Press covered in late April, now has Ethiopia charging them with terrorism. The UN Secretariat of Ban Ki-moon has after pressure condemned just this in Egypt. But when Inner City Press on behalf of the Free UN Coalition for Access asked Ban’s deputy spokesperson […]
Continue ReadingBy TesfaNews, IN AN apparent escalation of the ongoing protest by ethnic Oromo students in about a dozen Oromia towns, an explosion went off at Haromaya University late Wednesday night killing one and injured more than 70 students. According to eyewitness reports, the explosion occurred when a hand grenade was thrown at students watching a football match. […]
Continue Reading“These arrests appear to be yet another alarming round up of opposition or independent voices” – Claire Beston, Amnesty International By Aljazeera, THE Ethiopian government has arrested six independent bloggers and a journalist in what human rights group Amnesty International has called a “suffocating grip on freedom of expression“. Six members of independent blogger and activist group […]
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