ESAT News (January 8, 2018) A member of the Ethiopian parliament says over 10,000 people were killed in and around the border regions of Oromo and Somali in a violence which a parliamentary report said was perpetrated by the Somali Region Special Police, local police and militia. Tesfaye Robela was challenging a parliamentary committee that was set up to look ...

ESAT News (January 5, 2018) Two days after Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, said Ma’ekelawi detention center was used by the former marxist regime but not his government to torture opponents, a political prisoner asked a court in Addis Ababa today to show scars of torture on his body. But he was prevented by a judge, who sarcastically told the ...

ESAT News (January 5, 2018) Some 14,000 children might have been separated from their families in ethnic clashes in Eastern Ethiopia over the past year, UNICEF said on Friday. Ethnic clashes between the Oromo and Somali communities along their border and attack by TPLF army in Eastern Ethiopia in past months have resulted in the death of hundreds of people ...

ESAT News (January 4, 2018) Ethiopian regime’s promise to release political prisoners & close a notorious jail is meaningless without political freedoms, the Oakland Institute said today. “For years, while donor countries like the US have turned a blind eye, thousands of Ethiopians have languished behind bars simply for speaking up against so-called development policies and related human rights abuses, ...

ESAT News (January 4, 2017) Media close to the regime in Addis Ababa reported that some political prisoners could be released as early as Friday or Saturday. The Reporter newspaper quoted its sources as saying that the office of the President has requested prison administration and the prosecutor general to provide the list of political prisoners. In a surprise move ...

ESAT News (January 3, 2018) Protests have continued today in a number of towns and villages in the country’s Oromo region despite an announcement by the regime that some political prisoners would be freed. Tensions remained high in West Arsi and West Shewa with protesters denouncing the regime from Shashemene to Kofele and Arsi Kokosa. Clashes with security forces have ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (January 3, 2018) In an unprecedented move by a regime known for cruel treatment of political prisoners as well as criminalizing dissent and independent voice, a statement by the Prime Minister Wednesday says “some” political prisoners would be released. “Some members of political parties and other individuals would be released to widen the political and ...

ESAT News (January 1, 2018) As protests against TPLF continues in several towns and universities across the nation, the TPLF regime is deploying additional Agazi forces to quell growing objection against it misrule. While students of several universities continue protesting the regime and boycotting classes, 50 students of the Adama University have been arrested and taken to undisclosed location, according ...

ESAT News (January 2, 2018) A worldwide Ethiopian joint task force has called for Ethiopians in the Diaspora to stop sending remittance to the country through money transfer channels or reduce the amount they send in a bid to deny a repressive regime the hard currency it badly needs to survive. “The two-year long political and economic uncertainty is forcing ...

ESAT News (January 1, 2018) Three people were arrested in Ambo town, west of the capital Addis Ababa for stealing and illegal use of riot police uniforms, local media reported over the weekend. The three individuals were also accused of robbery and of beating and inflicting injury to a number of residents of Ambo, according to the town’s communication affairs ...