HUMAN RIGHTS IN ETHIOPIA

• The death in August 2012 of Ethiopia’s powerful prime minister, Meles Zenawi, led to new leadership but seems unlikely to result in tangible human rights reforms. Ethiopian authorities continue to severely restrict freedom of expression, association, and assembly. Thirty journalists and opposition members have been convicted under the country’s vague Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, and security forces responded to protests by Muslim communities with excessive force and arbitrary detentions. The Ethiopian government continues to forcibly resettle hundreds of thousands of rural villagers, including indigenous peoples, as part of its “villagization” program, relocating them through violence and intimidation, and often without essential services.

• Ethiopia: Terrorism Law Decimates Media
  The Ethiopian government should mark World Press Freedom Day, on May 3, 2013, by immediately releasing all journalists jailed under the country’s deeply flawed anti-terrorism law. On May 2, 2013, the Supreme Court upheld an 18-year sentence under the anti-terrorism law for Eskinder Nega Fenta, a journalist and blogger who received the 2012 PEN Freedom to Write Award.

• Ethiopia: Torture in the heart of Addis, even as leaders gather in gleaming AU building
  OCT 21, 2013
• Ethiopia: Political Detainees Tortured
  OCT 18, 2013
• Dispatches: World Bank Falls Short on Rights
  OCT 9, 2013
• UN Security Council: Address Rights Abuses in DR Congo
  OCT 3, 2013

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