Tag Archives: Amnesty International
Eritrea rejects in the clearest of terms Amnesty International’s wild accusations that it has “jailed at least 10,000 political prisoners.” Amnesty’s transparently political assault on Eritrea is totally unsubstantiated, with the organization unable to back its claims with facts. It … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Press Releases
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Tagged Amnesty, Amnesty International, Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, eritrean, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Political prisoner
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Eritrea’s hardline regime has jailed at least 10,000 political prisoners, many in “unimaginably atrocious conditions”, rights group Amnesty International said in a report Thursday criticising the situation in the Red Sea state. With political opposition banned, independent media quashed and … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Pan African News
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Tagged Amnesty International, Asmara, Eritrea, eritrean, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Soviet Union, United States
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Twenty years after its independence, Eritrea’s prisons are filled with thousands of political prisoners, locked up without ever being charged with a crime, many of whom are never heard from again, Amnesty International said in a report released today. Twenty … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Amnesty International, Arbitrary arrest and detention, Claire Beston, Eritrea, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Political prisoner, Prison
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ADDIS ABABA — The family of Reeyot Alemu, this year’s winner of the World Press Freedom Prize, says her situation in an Ethiopian prison is worsening by the day. Reeyot Alemu and Eskinder Nega are two of the best-known Ethiopian … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Amnesty International, Eskinder Nega, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Prison, Reeyot, Reeyot Alemu, UNESCO
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Eritrean women fleeing their country’s oppressive regime are increasingly finding themselves the repeat victim of abuse, exploitation and violence once outside their homeland, a new report by a women’s rights group has found. Meriam Mohamed Omar (R) stands with her … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Special Reports
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Tagged Amnesty International, Asmara, Eritrea, eritrean, Hagaz, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan
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by Alemayehu G. Mariam “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”, said Edmund Burke. But what happens when evil triumphs over a good young woman journalist named Reeyot Alemu in Ethiopia? Do … read more »
Posted in Alemayehu G. Mariam, Article, Columnist, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Amnesty International, Ethiopia, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, International Women's Media Foundation, Meles Zenawi, Reeyot, World Press Freedom Day
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By Katie Harris He was bleeding all over. After more beatings, they poured petrol on him and set him on fire. After he died, they left his body in the room with us until it became rotten and worms started … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Amnesty International, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Eritrea, eritrean, Gaza Strip, IndepthAfrica, Katie Harris, Sinai, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan
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By Tewelde Stephanos The numbers are staggering. Eritrea, a country of 4 to 5 million, has produced over 250,000 refugees in about 10 years. 35,000 live in a state of limbo in Israel. And these are the lucky ones. Over … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed, Refugees/Migrants
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Tagged Amnesty International, Asmara, Egypt, Eritrea, eritrean, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Nevsun, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan
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By Aaron Berhane When is the Vancouver-based mining company, Nevsun Resources Ltd., going to do business ethically? When will it admit to knowing about its gross human rights violations in Eritrea? The Eritrean Canadian Human Rights Group testified at an … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Amnesty International, British Columbia, Eritrea, Human rights, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Minister of International Trade, Nevsun Resources, Politics of Eritrea
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We call upon the government of Paul Kagame to release those arrested in today swoop, and ensure that police officers and their hierarchy are held accountable for their actions. File photo of supporters of Madame Victoire Ingabire, courtesy: therisingcontinent.wordpress.com (KIGALI) … read more »
opinion BOSCO NTAGANDA is now safely in the hands of the ICC, but his brief stay at the US Embassy and the hullabaloo it caused was a sound reminder that this world is full of unscrupulous and opportunistic people. First … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Rwanda
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Tagged Amnesty International, Bosco Ntaganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Hague, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, List of diplomatic missions of the United States, Ntaganda, Rwanda
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By Graham Peebles In a report entitled Collective Punishment, Human Rights Watch (HRW) highlights the case of an innocent 17-year-old Ogaden Somali girl who was held captive for three months in a “dark hole in the ground” and raped 13 … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somali
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Tagged Amnesty International, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, Ethiopian National Defense Force, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, Meles Zenawi, ndepthindepthafrica, news ethiopia, Ogaden, Ogaden National Liberation Front, ONLF
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Netsanet Belay, an Ethiopian national, is Amnesty International‘s program director for Africa. A trained human rights lawyer, he has worked for more than 10 years promoting and defending human rights at local, national, regional and global levels. He spent more … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Amnesty International, Amputation, CNN, Ethiopia, Hippocratic Oath, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Sudan
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It is a key role of any government to maintain law and order on behalf of the whole society; to hold people to account for crimes they have committed and to ensure that justice is done – and seen to … read more »
Amnesty International has urged the Nigerian authorities to immediately stop the forced eviction of hundreds of residents in the region as hundreds of homes are being demolished in the Oke Ilu-Eri area of Badia East n Lagos. On Saturday, bulldozers … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Amnesty International, Demolition, eviction, IndepthAfrica, Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, Police, World Bank
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Reports of rebel activities in Sudan have increased recently, according to Reuters , which reported that an airport had been occupied on Wednesday. Clashes between rebels affiliated with South Sudan in Sudan come as another report from Reuters indicates … read more »
Posted in East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Amnesty International, IndepthAfrica, Jonglei, Kurmuk, Reuters, South Sudan, Sudan, Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement, United Nation
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Sudanese authorities must halt the execution of a Darfuri activist whose sentence was changed from 10 years’ imprisonment to death, Amnesty International urged today amid fears he will be hanged this weekend. Bakri Moussa Mohammed, who has been involved in … read more »
Posted in East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Amnesty International, Bakri Moussa Mohammed, capitalpunishment, Darfur, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Khartoum, South Darfur, Sudan
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By Amnesty International Hundreds of fatal police shootings which each year leave families anguished and bereaved are not being investigated effectively because of a failure of the Nigerian justice system, Amnesty International says in a report released today. Nigeria: No … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Amnesty International, Human rights, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigerian, Nigerian news, Police brutality, Police officer, Port Harcourt, rivers state
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The Guardian, Your article on DfID’s support for Ethiopia‘s development is very misleading. (UK bid to spend millions training forces accused of abuse, 11 January). Blanket condemnation of the federal and regional government efforts to protect civilians of Ethiopia’s Somali … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Letters & Interviews
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Tagged Al-Shabaab, Amnesty International, Department for International Development, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian, ethiopian airways, ethiopian news, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, Ogaden National Liberation Front, Somali, Somali Region
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Farooque Chowdhury Hundreds of indigenous women and girls were murdered in Canada. To many, it’s a baffling fact. Recently, there were proposals in the UK parliament to expand the use of secret court hearings in civil cases. In Greece, migrants … read more »
Demonstrators in Colombo protest against the execution of Rizana Nafeek. Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters More than 45 foreign maids are facing execution on death row in Saudi Arabia, the Observer has learned, amid growing international outrage at the treatment of migrant … read more »
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Tagged Amnesty International, Colombo, Ethiopia news, ethiopian latest news, ethiopian maid execution, ethiopian maid facing execution, ethiopian maids, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Human Rights Watch, Indonesia, latest ethiopian news, Rizana Nafeek, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan
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According to a recent publication by the Guardian, the British government has plans to fund and train an Ethiopian paramilitary group in the Ogaden and subsidize them with millions of Pounds. Renowned international human rights groups such as: Human Rights … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Press Releases
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Tagged Amnesty International, British Government, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian government, Ethiopian National Defense Force, ethiopian news, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, Liyuu-Special Police, Ogaden, Ogaden National Liberation Front
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If “official lawlessness is denied and goes unpunished”, Nigeria will not gain the stability it so badly needs. Crimes of Boko Haram can never be a justification for a country’s “security forces to kill people with impunity” [AFP] It has … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Amnesty International, bokoharam, GoodluckJonathan, indepthafrica nigeria news, new year, Nigeria, Nigerian news, Salil Shetty, Task force, United Nations Millennium Campaign
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by Betre Yacob Independent human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty international, and the Anti-Torture Committee of the United Nations have several times reported of systematic persecution as well as use of violence and torture against Ethiopian journalists, … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Amnesty International, Donald Yamamoto, Embassy, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, Prison, United States, Wikileaks
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The international human rights “Amnesty International”, based in London, has rebelled Friday against “the crackdown on social and economic rights” in Algeria. Recalling the arrest on January 2 in the region of Ouargla of an activist for the rights of … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Columnist, North Africa, Said Temsamani
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Tagged Algeria, Amnesty, Amnesty International, Arab Spring, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, Mena, Non-governmental organization, United Nations
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By Vered Lee, haaretz They fled their homeland only to face a new threat in Israel: domestic violence. Now some are fighting back, from a small center in Tel Aviv. A little after 6 P.M., when the last of the … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Amnesty International, erirean news, Eritrea, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Israel, London, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan, tel aviv
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The UN Security Council’s approval of armed intervention into Mali risks worsening the human rights and humanitarian crisis in the north, Amnesty International said today. The Council voted unanimously on Thursday to approve an African-led force with “use all necessary … read more »
(New York) – South Sudan should carry out its commitment for a moratorium on the death penalty. On December 20, 2012, South Sudan, along with 110 other nations, voted in favor of a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling on … read more »
Posted in East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Amnesty International, capitalpunishment, Human rights, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nhial Deng, South Sudan, Sudan, United Nations General Assembly resolution
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press release Greece is seriously failing to respect the rights of asylum-seekers and migrants, Amnesty International warned in a briefing published today. Every year, tens of thousands of irregular migrants and asylum-seekers from the Middle East, Asia and Africa cross … read more »
ADDIS ABABA — An Ethiopian court has upheld terrorism charges against dozens of Muslims over massive protests against government interference in the religious affairs of the sizable community. “This is very significant because, if the case is continued in such … read more »
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Al Ahbash, Amnesty International, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian government, ethiopian news, Muslim, Politics of Ethiopia, Ummah
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