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2008 Human Rights Watch Report Critical of Meles' Regime in Ethiopia
Written by CyberEthiopia   
Friday, 01 February 2008

Human Rights Watch 2008 Report The 2008 Human Rights Watch report states: “As such unworthy claimants as the leaders of Egypt, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, and Nigeria wrap themselves in the democracy mantle with scant international objection, the concept of democracy gets cheapened, its human rights component cast aside.” – page 4

Ethiopian authorities reacted to unexpected opposition wins in the 2005 elections by violently dispersing peaceful demonstrations and detaining most of the opposition leadership.” – page 11

Ethiopia has been an illustrative beneficiary of this double standard. The government of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi arrested thousands of demonstrators protesting against fraud in the 2005 elections and charged 18 journalists with treason. These arrests were part of a broader pattern of repression, including the use of torture, detention, and intimidation of people perceived as political opponents and, more recently, extraordinary brutality in suppressing an insurgency in the Ogaden region and fighting Islamic forces in neighboring Somalia. The US government has expressed dismay about the post-election crackdown, but Ethiopia, a key counterterrorism partner, remains Washington’s biggest aid beneficiary in sub-Saharan Africa. Ethiopia is also among the top African recipients of European Union aid. After the 2005 election violence, the EU, along with the World Bank and the United Kingdom, suspended portions of their direct budget support to Ethiopia, but the UK has since increased its aid” – page 15-16

The report is available at  the BBC and the Human Rights Watch web sites

 
Update on Daniel and Netsanet
Written by CyberEthiopia   
Tuesday, 01 January 2008

Daniel Bekele and Netsanet DemissieAfter two years of stay in prison, human rights activists, Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie have been sentenced to two and a half years prison on Wednesday 26 December.

They are reportedly to be freed since the two activists have served two/third of their sentence. Local newspapers indicated that the presiding judge excluded himself from the verdict saying Daniel and Netsanet were free of charge.

Contrary to the annoucements of that they would walk free in few days, reliable sources revealed that their release could be delayed up to four months by the court.

 
Verdict postponed again!
Written by Action Aid   
Saturday, 24 November 2007

Daniel Bekele and Netsanet DemissieThe verdict in the case of Ethiopian anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, which was expected on the 22nd of November, has been postponed again because a judge is in hospital.

The last evidence in the case was presented in Ethiopia's Federal High Court on 2 August. The two prisoners have been waiting since then to hear their verdict, first while the court completed its annual recess, and then for a further six weeks after the judges said that they needed extra time to consider all the evidence.

On November 22nd, the court postponed the verdict again, to Friday 30 November, because one of the three judges is in hospital.
The two anti-poverty campaigners are the only remaining defendants in a case which was brought against 127 individuals and four organisations in January 2006.
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