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Ethiopia: Imprisoned journalists and politician write letter to PM
ESAT News (May 11, 2017) Journalist Elias Gebru and Daniel Shibeshi, former leading member of the opposition Andinet party wrote a letter to Ethiopian prime minister pleading for their release from prison. Elias and Daniel were thrown to jail five months ago following cooked up accusations that they have colluded with opposition political parties, namely Patriotic Ginbot 7 and ...
Read More »UK urged to press Ethiopia to free political prisoner
ESAT News (May 11, 2017) Reprieve, an international human rights organization, urged the UK government to demand the release of Andy Tsege, an Ethiopian born British father of three, kidnapped at the Yemeni airport in 2014 by Ethiopian regime security. The call by Reprieve came at a time when the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn is in London ...
Read More »Ethiopia: Regime disrupts transmission of independent media
ESAT News (May 11, 2017 The Ethiopian regime, a leading muzzler of the press, has once again disrupted the transmission of Ethiopian Satellite Television and Radio (ESAT), the management said in a statement on Thursday. The regime has jammed and coerced satellite service providers to drop ESAT for over twenty five times in the last seven years existence of ...
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