His families appeared to court as defense witnesses The 4th criminal bench at the Federal High Court heard the families of activist Yonatan Tesfaye, former public relations head of Blue […]
Tag: Freedom of Expression
U.S. Wrong to Endorse Ethiopia’s Election – Joint letter to Sec. Kerry
April 17, 2015 The Honorable John F. Kerry Secretary of State 2201 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20520 Dear Mr. Secretary: We are deeply troubled over the comments made by […]
Facts and Documents on Case of Zone9 Bloggers and Journalists
After nine months continuous appearance to the federal High court 19th criminal bench for 20 times the court finally have decided to hear evidence by the prosecution. The evidence hearing […]
Advocates Petition UN to Intervene on Jailed Ethiopian Bloggers’ Behalf
By Soleyana S. Gebremicheal and Patrick Griffith This Article was first published at Global voices. Despite early, high-level condemnation of the arrests of independent journalists and bloggers in Ethiopia nine […]
Zone9 Bloggers case, Presented to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Six Zone9bloggers collective members and three other independent journalists are in detention since last April 2014. accusation of Ethiopian government which suspected them in working with human rights organizations was […]