The Question: Can the Olympics ever be apolitical?
Feyisa Lilesa’s solidarity sign to Ethopians is the latest political act at a games By Davin O’Dwyer Source: THE IRISH TIMES On […]
Category: Human Rights
The Bravest Olympian in Rio — Ethiopia’s Feyisa Lilesa Risks Death But Speaks Out About Killings of Oromo Protesters in Ethiopia After Earning Olympic Silver in Marathon
Media coverage of Olympian Feyisa Lilesa’s taking stand: MUST WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhjdE9AJtxo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdRNuEaYWJA The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/22/world/africa/feyisa-lilesa-ethiopia-olympic-marathon-protest.html?_r=0 The Times:Ethiopia Says Olympic Runner […]
Dozens killed as police use excessive force against peaceful protesters in Ethiopia
Source: Amnesty International PREESS RELEASE AUGUST 8, 2016 At least 97 people were killed and hundreds more injured when Ethiopian security forces […]
Ethiopia: Protest Crackdown Killed Hundreds: Free Wrongly Held Detainees, Independent Inquiry Needed. By Human Rights Watch 15 June 2016
“Such a Brutal Crackdown” Killings and Arrests in Response to Ethiopia’s Oromo Protests download whole document: https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/ethiopia0616web.pdf
News in Pictures – Recent protests in Oromia and worldwide
The following are some of the pictures depicting recent protests by the Oromo people in Oromia and worldwide. As widely covered by […]
Ethiopia’s Invisible Crisis
JANUARY 22, 2016 By: Felix Horne, Researcher, Horn of Africa “Badessa” was a third-year engineering student in western Ethiopia in April 2014 […]
EU parliament adopts resolution on Ethiopia
The debate on the situation in Oormia & Ethiopia in the EU parliament and the resolution adopted on 21 January 2016 . […]
Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorism Law: A Tool to Stifle Dissent – A Legal Analysis by International Lawyers
January 21, 2016 —FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—Media Contact: Anuradha Mittal, Oakland InstituteLewis Gordon, Environmental Defender Law Center Oakland, CA—With human rights as the […]