November 07, 2013 Eskinder Nega is an Ethiopian journalist serving 18 year sentence in Ethiopia’s Kaliti Prison. Amnesty International UK’s online petition ‘HELP GET ESKINDER HOME’, has so far been signed by over 7000 people of its 10,000 targets. Please Click and sign the petition yourself. Read More »
Getachew Worku is being held without charge. (Ethio-Mihdar) New York, November 5, 2013–Ethiopian police have arrested without charge two editors of the leading independent Amharic weekly Ethio-Mihdar, according to local journalists. Police in the town of Legetafo, northeast of the capital Addis Ababa, on Monday arrested Getachew Worku in connection a story published in October alleging corruption in the town administration, according ... Read More »
September 17, 2013 Detained Ethiopian journalists Reeyot Alemu and Eskinder Nega have been nominated for Sakharov Prize, European Parliament said. Edward Snowden is also among the seven nominees. The EU press release read “Reeyot Alemu and Eskinder Nega were nominated by Ana Maria Gomes (S&D, PT) and 40 other MEPs” and added, These Ethiopian journalists are serving prison terms on terrorism charges. ... Read More »
De Birhan September 14, 2013 Ethiopian educator, journalist and human rights activist Reeyot Alemu, who is now serving a five year sentence in Kaliti Prison in Addis Abeba, has entered her fifth day of hunger strike. Reeyot started the strike opposing abuses in prison and specially after prison officials delimited the number of people she can be visited by. Reeyot’s ... Read More »
September 11, 2013 Following the orders of Kaliti Prison authorities yesterday that Journalist and educator Reeyot Alemu could only be visited by her parents and a religious Father, Reey0t has kicked off a hunger strike. Her younger sister, Eskedar Alemu wrote on her Facebook wall that Reeyot Alemu is finding herself in an extremely difficult predicament in Kaliti prison. Eskedar said ... Read More »