By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 8, 2016) Fifteen international rights organizations wrote a letter to the Permanent Representatives of Members and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council urging the body to draw attention and address grave violations of human rights in Ethiopia, including the recent crackdown on largely peaceful protests in the Oromia and Amhara regions. ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 8, 2016) Families of Qilinto prisoners who demanded the regime to disclose the identities of political prisoners who were reportedly shot and killed by security forces on Saturday at the prison were beaten and briefly detained by regime’s security forces. The families who went to Qilinto on Wednesday also demanded the prison administration to ...

  By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 8, 2016) Ethiopian regime security forces have been rounding upthousands of people in the Amhara region amidst ongoing strikes and uprising calling for the end of the tyrannical regime. Weeks of protests in the Amhara region left at least 150 people killed by TPLF security forces who shot indiscriminately at protesters. Sources who ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 8, 2016) The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union (EU) announced on Tuesday that no funds from the Emergency Trust Fund (ETF) were transferred to the Ethiopian regime due to it worsening human rights abuses in recent months. EurActiv, an online news media focusing on EU quoted a spokesman of the ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 8, 2016) The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union (EU) announced on Tuesday that no funds from the Emergency Trust Fund (ETF) were transferred to the Ethiopian regime due to it worsening human rights abuses in recent months. EurActiv, an online news media focusing on EU quoted a spokesman of the ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 7, 2016) Unknown assailants on Tuesday killed two members of the Agazi army, a Special Force of the Ethiopian regime, in a grenade attack in the town of Nekemte, Western Ethiopia, Oromo region, where uprising against the tyrannical regime has been going on for well over nine months. A source told ESAT on the ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 7, 2016) General strike by businesses and employees of government offices across towns in the Oromo region is underway restricting flow of goods and livestock ahead of the Ethiopian New Year on Sunday. Businesses in Ambo and Guder, near the capital Addis Ababa, have been shut down since the weekend despite stern warning by ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 5, 2016) Hospital sources told ESAT that they have received over 60 bodies from Qilinto prison on Saturday and Doctors confirmed that all of the victims died from gunshot wounds. Their bodies were riddled with bullets, according to the doctors. Fire broke out at the Qilinto prison outside the capital Addis Ababa on Saturday ...

  By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 4, 2016) 450 soldiers have deserted the Ethiopian regime’s army today in North Gondar and announced that they have joined the struggle launched by the people to remove the brutal regime. A representative of the defectors told ESAT on the phone that, the army, as it is made up of the sons and ...

By Engidu Woldie ESAT News (September 4, 2016) Families of Ethiopian prisoners of conscience who flocked at the Qilinto prison, outside the capital Addis Ababa early on Sunday were told by authorities to wait for three days for information about their loved ones. The families fear their loved ones could be the victims of the fire and the reported gunfire ...