To Permanent Representatives of Members and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council Geneva, 25 May 2017 RE: Addressing the pervasive human rights crisis in Ethiopia Your Excellency, The undersigned civil society organisations write to draw your attention to persistent and grave violations of human rights in Ethiopia and the pressing need to support […]
Category: Reports
Inhuman treatments in ‘Rehab Training Concentration Camps’
On their way back to home from the ‘training’ in Awash Sebat (military training center used for ‘rehab training’ for detainees who participated in protests in Ethiopia), Nurhassen Hussen was ‘privileged’. Trainees were transported by bus to the capital and had to take their own means to reach home, the ‘generosity’ of the trainers was […]
Qilinto Fire: 67 died
Ethiopia Human Rights Project (EHRP) Special Report October 31st 2016 Qilinto detention on fire/ Picture from internet In Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Kality, Zeway, Shewarobit prisons and Qlinto detention center are administered by the federal government. In Qilinto there are around 3000 detainees, among those half of them are charged with terrorism and others […]
Zeway Prison Administration said “they do not know” the whereabouts of Jounalist Temesegen Dessalegn
December 14/2016 It has been seven days since Zeway prison administration announced that journalist Temesgen Dessalegn is not in their custody. His family members now has spent a more than a week without knowing the whereabouts of the known journalist. Fithe newspaper’s ( now defect) journalist and editor Temesgen Dessalegn was charged and sentenced three years […]
Ethiopia- Government’s Brutal Response to Amhara Region Protesters
ETHIOPIA HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT·MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2016 ( Translated from Amharic) Following the July arrest and detention of representatives of the Wolqait Amhara Identity Committee in Gonder by the government’s Antiterrorism Taskforce, protests erupted in many areas of the Amhara region. The first of these protests took place on August 1st in Gonder town in […]