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ESAT News (December 15, 2016) A member of the European Parliament called for the European Union to end its complicity with the Ethiopian regime that kills peaceful protesters and jails journalists and political opponents. https://youtu.be/iEWeRYPdvSg Ana Maria Gomes made an impassioned plea to members of the European Union to end their silence over the crimes perpetrated by the regime. Mrs. ...

ESAT News (December 14, 2016) Over one thousand Tigrayan businessmen who were widely accused of taking over land for agriculture in Gambella, displacing the locals, complain of lack of additional loans from the Development Bank. The Tigrayan dominated government in Ethiopia has been a subject of scathing criticism at an international level for favoring Tigrayans who took large tracts of ...

ESAT News (December 14, 2016) Human rights groups are asking Ethiopia’s government to immediately disclose the whereabouts of a prominent local journalist who has been behind bars since October 2014. According to the Associated Press report, the Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia and DefendDefenders on Wednesday called it “unacceptable” that the government was unwilling or unable to provide Temesgen ...

ESAT News (December 14, 2016) Andargachew “Andy” Tsige, a politician on death row in Ethiopia has gone two years without a phone call to his family in London, Reprieve, a rights group said on Wednesday. Andargachew ‘Andy’ Tsege last spoke to his partner and three children on 14th December 2014. His family say that the rare phone call came out ...