ESAT News (May 11, 2018) The state news agency reported that federal prosecutors dropped charges against Dr. Fikru Maru, an Ethiopian born Swedish cardiologist and 61 others who have been detained for years on trumped up terrorism and other charges. Prosecutors on Wednesday downgraded terrorism charges against Dr. Maru et al to organizing revolt at the Qilinto prison. Thirty eight ...

by Engidu Woldie ESAT News (March 14, 2018) Ethiopian Ambassador to Sweden, Merga Bekana, has been summoned by the Swedish Foreign Ministry over a protracted trial of an Ethiopian-born Swedish cardiologist, Dr. Fikru Maru. One of Sweden’s top cardiologist, Fiku Maru established a cardiology hospital in Addis Ababa in 2007 to help his people. Dr. Maru has been in prison ...

ESAT News (October 25, 2017) Co-defendants told a court in Addis Ababa that two inmates were beaten to death by prison officers at a maximum security prison outside the capital. A defendant told the court that Alemaye Wake Mamo and Mohammed Chane were beaten to death by the superintendent of the notorious Qilinto prison, named Asefa Kidane. Journalist Getachew Shiferaw ...

ESAT News (September 15, 2016) Bodies of prisoners killed at a federal prison in Ethiopia two weeks ago were being given to families, who confirmed to ESAT that the cause for the death of their loved ones was bullet wounds and not the fire that gutted down the prison, as the regime claims. The Ethiopian regime, contrary to what families ...