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  ESAT News (April 11, 2017) The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission says prison guards had opened fire at prisoners who were running away from the fire that gutted down a building at the Qilinto prison in August last year. The Commissioner, Adisu Gebregziabher, told the Law and Justice Committee of the House of Peoples Representatives that prison administrators and security ...

ESAT News (April 11, 2017) Ethiopian regime soldiers and army units from the Ogaden National Liberation Army had been engaged in a brief fight on Sunday, according to a report by the Ogaden News Agency. The report said residents fleeing the battle in Birqot district of Degahbur told an ONA reporter seeing the bodies of 17 Ethiopian soldiers and three ...

ESAT News (April 11, 2017) The European Union expressed  its concerns over the large number of persons being detained or prosecuted following the anti-government protest last year which is continuing under the state of emergency. The statement came as the European Union Special Representative for Human Rights, Stavros Lambrinidis, paid a three-day official visit to Ethiopia last week. The Special ...