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Was TPLF vice-chairman Debretsion Gebremichael saying yesterday in an interview on Tsinat Radio that the TPLF has no separate responsibility in administration of Ethiopia? Why is it the main body now imposing martial law administrative body designated by defence, police and the intelligence? Isn’t that clear deceit? Read the full story here:
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ባለፈው ዓመት በተለይ በኦሮሚያና በአማራ ክልሎች የተቀሰቀሰውን ሕዝባዊ ተቃውሞና ግጭት ተከትሎ በዜጎች ላይ እየተደረገ የቆየው የሰብአዊና የዴሞክራሲያዊ መብቶች እመቃ መቀጠሉን ያስታወቀው ሂውማን ራይትስ ዎች፤ መንግስት የህዝቦችን መብት ማክበርና ማስከበር እንዳለበት፣ አሳሰበ፡፡
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(AFP) – President Barack Obama will in late July become the first sitting American leader to visit Ethiopia and the headquarters of the African Union, the White House said Friday.
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Amnesty Press Release, June 23, 2015
The suspicious murder of opposition leaders and wide-spread human rights violations against opposition party members over the past few weeks raises questions about Ethiopia’s elections, said Amnesty International as the parliamentary poll results were announced yesterday.
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by Amnesty International
– Claire Beston, Amnesty International’s Ethiopia researcher.
Thousands of members of Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo, are being ruthlessly targeted by the state based solely on their perceived opposition to the government, said Amnesty International in a new report released today.
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Ethiopians stage a demonstration at the Saudi Embassy in Addis Ababa on November 15, 2013, only to be abused by Ethiopian security forces for holding the rally. Ethiopian spokesperson Shimeles Kemal said the demonstration was illegal. Why then the beatings and imprisoning of over 100 protesters? What then is the difference between Saudi rights violations and Ethiopia’s? Is it a matter of the law or some political and economic interests? (Credit: Press TV).
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Abdallah Awele, 21, said that he was treated brutally for being an illegal migrant worker in the Arab country.
“I had 3,500 Saudi Arabian riyals (930 dollars, 690 euros). We were taken to prison, I lost my luggage, and all of my money was collected by the police,” AFP quoted Abdallah as saying in a report published on Sunday.
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Ethiopians protesting in front of the Saudi embassy in Helsinki (Credit: Tsedey G.Mariam)
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On Friday, November 15, 2013 from 9:00 -11:00 A.M., an estimated 250 Finnish-Ethiopians & Ethiopians resident in Finland angrily, but in an orderly manner, protested in front of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Helsinki, Finland, denouncing the government’s abuses, killings of male immigrants and rape of Ethiopian women.
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