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Ethiopia: Arbitrary Detention/Torture or other ill-treatment ...
7 January 2009

Opposition party leader Birtukan Mideksa was arrested on 28 December 2008 and is being held in Kaliti Prison without charge, in solitary confinement. She has been ...

Urgent Action       AFR 25/003/2009

Ethiopia: Government passes repressive new legislation | Amnesty ...
6 January 2009

Amnesty International called the Charities and Societies Proclamation law (CSO law), adopted today by the Ethiopian parliament, a repressive law designed to strictly ...

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Ethiopia: Arbitrary detention/torture or other ill-treatment
14 November 2008

At least 15 members of the Oromo ethnic group have been arrested in the capital Addis Ababa and also reportedly in eastern and western parts of the Oromia region ...

Urgent Action       AFR 25/012/2008

Ethiopia: Further information on Arbitrary Detention / Torture
11 November 2008

Ugaas (clan leader) Abdirahman Qani is now known to have been released on 7 October 2008. His relatives were all released several days later.

Urgent Action       AFR 25/011/2008

Ethiopia: Further Information on Torture/incommunicado detention
23 October 2008

Najima Jamal Ismail is now known to have been released on bail of 1000 birr (approx US$100), on 28 December 2007. Her stepfather was released unconditionally on ...

Urgent Action       AFR 25/010/2008

Ethiopia: Draft Law Would Wreck Civil Society
14 October 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: AFR 25/009/2008. 14 October 2008. Ethiopia: Draft Law Would Wreck Civil Society. Amnesty ...

Document       AFR 25/009/2008

Ethiopia: Comments on the Draft Charities and Societies ...
1 October 2008

Contents. 1. Introduction 4. 2. Context of the draft proclamation 5. The prosecution of daniel bekele and netsanet demissie 5. the expulsion ...

Report       AFR 25/008/2008

Ethiopia: Arbitrary detention/torture: Abdirahman Mohamed Qani
22 August 2008

Ugaas (clan leader) Abdirahman Mohamed Qani, chief of the Tolomoge group of the Ogaden clan has been detained without charge since 13 July, together with 12 others ...

Urgent Action       AFR 25/007/2008

Ethiopia: Government Prepares Assault on Civil Society
1 July 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: AFR 25/006/2008. 1 July 2008. Ethiopia: Government Prepares Assault on Civil Society. ...

Document       AFR 25/006/2008

Ethiopia: Comments on Draft Charities and Societies Proclamation
10 June 2008

This brief Comment looks at some of the most repressive provisions of the Draft Charities and Societies Proclamation in light of the obligations and commitments ...

Document       AFR 25/005/2008