Dr. Berhanu Nega : Ethiopia ‘s Most Dangerous Professor

BY LAURA SECORUN PALETOCT ,  Ozy Western ally Ethiopia has many skeletons in its closet. It was the spring of 2001 and 43-year-old Berhanu Nega was optimistic. His homeland, Ethiopia, was recovering from decades of conflict, he had just given a speech to university students about academic freedom, and now he had landed at Charles

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UK must use Ethiopia trade event to demand death-row Brit’s release

Reprieve Organization The Foreign Office is hosting a high-level trade event for Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister tomorrow (21st), despite the ongoing detention of a British man kidnapped by the Ethiopian authorities 16 months ago. Foreign minister Grant Shapps will share a stage tomorrow with Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adanhom at the UK Ethiopia Trade Investment Forum,

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Minister fails to help Brit held in Ethiopia ‘gulag’

A Foreign Office minister who recently visited Ethiopia failed to raise the case of a British father of three who was kidnapped by Ethiopian forces 15 months ago – despite concerns for his welfare, after it emerged he has been transferred to a brutal political prison. Andargachew ‘Andy’ Tsege, from London, was abducted in transit

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Community rallies around Ethiopian woman facing deportation

By Bianca Hall Sydney Morning Herald Anglican church parishioners in Melbourne’s inner south have launched a desperate campaign to stop the deportation of Ethiopian woman Yeshiwork Abrha​, who fears she will be killed if the federal government sends her home. Last week, The Age reported on Ms Yeshiwork’s desperate bid to stay in Australia. She

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US and European officials urge Ethiopia to release Andy Tsege

The father of three and lifelong crusader for democracy has been in secret detention for more than a year Politicians from the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union have sent a letter to Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn urging the release of British citizen Andargachew “Andy” Tsege, a political activist who has been

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UN demands release of British activist jailed in Ethiopia amid torture fears

The Foreign Office has pushed for consular access to Andargachew Tsige with no tangible results, since the British citizen was abducted in Ethiopia a year ago The UN has demanded the immediate release of a Briton held on death row in Ethiopia for more than a year, an intervention that campaigners say exposes Britain’s poor

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UK Foreign secretary warns Ethiopia over treatment of Andargachew Tsige

By Owen Bowcott | The Guardian Foreign secretary condemns detention of Andargachew Tsige in solitary confinement with no access to consular help or right to appeal The treatment of a Briton on death row in Ethiopia is threatening to undermine the country’s relationship with the UK, the foreign secretary has warned. In an unusually blunt

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