Ethiopia: Future of last remaining human rights monitoring NGO in the balance

On February 3, 2012, the Cassation Bench of the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia will hear a petition by the Human Rights Council (HRCO), Ethiopia’s oldest human rights organization, to admit an appeal against the freezing of its bank accounts. Amnesty International, ARTICLE 19, CIVICUS,

Charges renewed against Ethiopian journalist Temesghen

Nairobi, February 8, 2013 – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the revival of criminal charges against Ethiopian journalist Temesghen Desalegn today in what appears to be a politicized court hearing designed to censor one of the few critical voices left in the country.

A court revived criminal charges against Temesghen Desalegn today. (CPJ)

A judge in the Federal High Court in the capital, Addis Ababa, revived three charges against Temesghen, former chief editor of the now-defunct Feteh, and one against the general manager of Mastewal Publishing, the publishing company that formerly printed Feteh, according to local journalists who attended the hearing. Temesghen faces charges of "outrages against the constitution," defaming the government, and false publication of articles, while the manager of Mastewal Publishing faces an unspecified charge for allowing the weekly to be published. Under Ethiopian law, a printing company is also held accountable for a press offense by a publication that it publishes.

Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights

“No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

Rule 39, as an interim measure, has the power to require a State Party to refrain from removing an applicant to a country where he or she may be at real risk of a violation of his or her fundamental rights

“SOON COME”; ETHIOPIAN REGIME ON LIFE SUPPORT

In this case it applies to the end of the Ethiopian regime which is now in its terminal stage, in intensive care on life support and being kept alive only by an intravenous infusion of over $20 million a day in western “aid“

ETHIOPIA AND IMF DISAGREE ON GDP FIGURES

After cooking the books for the past several years to make hyperbolic claims of economic growth, the Ethiopian government finds itself, again, at odds with the International Monetary Fund over this year’s projected GDP growth figures.

ETHIOPIA: 20 CIVILIANS BURNED TO DEATH AFTER FUEL TRAILER HIT EUFF REBELS LANDMINE

In their apparent attempt to destroy a fully loaded TPLF/EPRDF owned fuel tank trailer in Ethiopia’s remote town of Kimir Dingai on Wednesday, the newly re-grouped resistance group, the Ethiopian Unity and Freedom Force (EUFF), accidentally claimed the life of 20 civilians and 21 others injured.

HAILEMARIAM DESALEGN: DOES HE LIVE AS MELES OR AS HIMSELF?

Grading the performance of Hailemariam Desalegn over 100 days in office

Hailemariam Desalegn: Can he deviate from being Meles and survive?

By Deutsche Welle (DW),

On 21 September 2012 Hailemariam Desalegnwas sworn in as Ethiopia’s prime minister. He was regarded as a compromise candidate and many Ethiopians expected more political freedom. 100 days on, hope is fading.

A few days before Ethiopia’s new prime minister,Hailemariam Desalegn, was sworn in, the Ethiopian government pardoned 2,000 political prisoners. Desalegn’s inauguration coincided with the Orthodox New Year which falls in September. At the same time the Ethiopian government started negotiations in Kenya with the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), a separatist group based in the eastern part of the country.