Ethiopian force accused of human rights abuse to receive UK millions

The Ethiopian army withdrew from teh Ogaden region after compalints againts soldiers” conduct – to be replaced by the ‘special police’. Photograph: Peter Delarue/AFP/Getty Images  Millions of pounds of Britain’s foreign aid budget are to be spent on training an Ethiopian paramilitary security force  which stands accused of numerous human rights abuses and summary executions.

Stop sending Ethiopian asylum seeking journalists to Kality: Johan Persson

First of all I would like to thank Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye for living up to your promises you made to our colleagues at Kality’s prison.

Swedish journalists explain arrest, imprisonment in Ethiopia

by Ryan Kohls 

For 438 days, two Swedish freelance journalists were locked up in Ethiopian prisons for illegally entering the country and committing acts of terrorism.

Supporting stability, abetting repression

By TOBIAS HAGMANN (New York Times)

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA — Next time I travel to Ethiopia, I may be arrested as a terrorist. Why? Because I have published articles about Ethiopian politics.
I wrote a policy report on Ethiopia’s difficulties with federalism. I gave a talk in which I questioned Ethiopia’s May 2010 elections, in which the ruling EPRDF party (Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front) won 545 out of 547 seats in the Parliament. As part of my ongoing research on mass violence in the Somali territories, I interviewed members of the Ogaden National Liberation Front, a separatist rebel group in eastern Ethiopia that the government has designated as a terrorist organization.

President Barack Obama talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi

Eskinder Nega, Five Exiled Journalists Convicted of Terrorism

June 29, 2012

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Nairobi — Today’s self-assurance of 6 Ethiopian reporters on deceptive terrorism charges is an aspersion to a sequence of law and a structure in a Horn of Africa country, a Committee to Protect Journalists pronounced today. At slightest 11 reporters have been charged with terrorism given Nov 2011, according to CPJ research.

I will retire in 2015 and probably teach at the leadership academy: Meles Zenawi

Posted by admin on May 31, 2012

By Richard Dowden

 

RAS Director Richard Dowden interviewed Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles on May 12th 2012. What follows is a selection of quotes from the interview on subjects ranging from democracy to the demise of Muammar Gadaffi and ‘land grabbing.’ To read Richard’s full analysis of the current state of Meles’ Ethiopia click here.

MelesZenawi and Richard Dowden

 

 

On the suggestion that, as a ruler from a minority, he is rushing the development of Ethiopia as fast as possible into order to stay in power
We are making progress on the economic front though not necessarily according to the standard orthodox prescription, so people think there must be something wrong…

Detentions display UN’s impotence in Ethiopia

Thursday, April 26, 2012

 Ethiopia‘s government, a favored and oft-praised Western partner, has held one United Nationsemployee in jail without charges for well over a year, while another is facing prosecution under a notorious anti-terrorism law.

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The detentions are a stark indicator of the UN’s predicament in the illiberal Horn of Africa nation.

Ethiopian UN Security Official On Trial for Terrorism

April 10, 2012

An Ethiopian national working for the United Nations in the restive Ogaden region is being tried on terrorism charges for allegedly having links with an outlawed rebel group. The defendant was arrested last year after helping to negotiate the release of two kidnapped U.N. aid workers.

U.N. security officer Abdirahman Sheikh Hassan appeared briefly in an Addis Ababa courtroom Monday. His case was continued until May 15