Human Rights

June 3, 2022 The Norwegian Nobel Committee Henrik Ibsens gate 51 0255 Oslo E-mail: postmaster@nobel.no Dear Excellencies: Subject: Further Appeal to Strip Abiy Ahmed Ali of his Nobel Peace Prize As a concerned Ethiopian, I requested your Excellencies, about a year ago to strip Abiy Ahmed Ali of his Nobel Peace Prize under “acts or

A man holds a newspaper in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 3 November 2021, a day after a nationwide state of emergency was declared. EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via Getty Images 11 media workers have been arrested in separate police raids on independent media outlets in Addis Ababa and Amhara. This statement was originally published on cpj.org on 24 May 2022.

Ethiopia’s state-appointed human rights body has called for the release of 16 journalists and media personnel after new arrests in recent days in the capital Addis Ababa and the restive region of Amhara. Press watchdogs and rights groups have said Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government is increasingly intimidating the media and harassing opponents as it

A few days ago, journalist Solomon was abducted by gunmen on his way home. Hearing of this embarrassment, the journalist went to the police station and ridiculed his sister, saying, “Until Solomon came”  I did not know that there was a law to punish a peaceful person. The Amhara prosprty kidnaper who had taken this

By Mahlet Fasil About a dozen journalists and media personalities were arrested in a span of three days, reports said. The arrests were made in Bahir Dar, the capital of the Amhara region, and Addis Abeba according to information acquired from the media houses and families of the detainees. The crackdown was first reported on

The Terrorist TPLF forces executed and gang-raped over 7,000 innocent civilians in their short-lived occupation of the Amhara State, according to the research conducted by the state’s 10 universities together with the state’s statistical office. The study was conducted during the past five months and the data found by the researchers were heartbreaking and gruesome,

By Getahun Tsegaye @GetahunTsegay12 Addis Abeba – Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) told lawmakers to pay “special attention” to the increasing level of human rights abuses in Ethiopia including extrajudicial killings, excessive use of force, random detentions, including extended detentions without due process by the court of law, as well as detentions targeting journalists and opposition politicians. The Commission

This message is prepared in consultation with members of the Executive Committee of OTAGE as a follow up to an earlier letter (attached below) sent to the UN Secretary General and the President of the UN Human Rights Council. Despite our good faith efforts, the two organizations have turned deaf ears to our repeated requests

We, the undersigned, strongly protest against the joint report of Amnesty International (“AI”) and Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) issued recently accusing the Federal Government of Ethiopia, the Amhara Regional Government and the Amhara militia and Fano of committing human rights violations in what the report refers to as “Western Tigray.” As argued below, we affirm