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ESAT News (October 25, 2017) Co-defendants told a court in Addis Ababa that two inmates were beaten to death by prison officers at a maximum security prison outside the capital. A defendant told the court that Alemaye Wake Mamo and Mohammed Chane were beaten to death by the superintendent of the notorious Qilinto prison, named Asefa Kidane. Journalist Getachew Shiferaw ...

ESAT News (October 25, 2017) Regime’s security forces killed three people in Ambo in an attempt to free trucks loaded with sugar that were held up by residents. One of the victims was said to be an officer with the regional police force. Residents of Ambo and the nearby town of Guder have held up several trucks loaded with sugar ...

ESAT News (October 25, 2017) An Ethiopian born Dutch citizen will go on trial in the Netherlands next Monday for his alleged role in the infamous “red terror” in Ethiopia in the 1970s. The man, 63, is accused of killing of 75 young prisoners in 1978 and incarceration and inhumane treatment of more than 200 people, according to a Reuters ...