Human Rights

Amnesty International UK Press releases Hundreds killed and wounded in knife and machete attacks on night of 9 November Witnesses say Tigray People’s Liberation Front responsible ‘This is a horrific tragedy’ – Deprose Muchena Amnesty International has verified video footage and photographs that show scores of people were killed and wounded in knife and machete attacks in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Amnesty International November 2020 Amnesty International can today confirm that scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra (May Cadera) town in the South West Zone of Ethiopia’s Tigray Region on the night of 9 November. The organization’s Crisis Evidence Lab has examined and digitally verified gruesome photographs and

Published first in April 14, 2012 By Tesfay Atsbeha and Kahsay Berhe Republished October 25, 2020 The inhuman measures of expelling Ethiopians from their own country in the district of Gura Ferda should outrage all Ethiopians. How can hardworking innocent farmers, women and children who were living legally be deprived of their houses, farmland and

October 01, 2020 Amnesty International UK Press releases Thousands of Ethiopians expelled by neighbouring Yemen in March left to languish in disease-ridden Saudi cells Reports of dead bodies in cells, with lack of soap and water creating acute COVID risk ‘It’s hell, I’ve never seen something like this …There are no toilets’ – Ethiopian detainee

Washington UpdateSeptember 23, 20201.The present ethnic cleansing in the Benshangul, Afar and northern and southern parts of Ethiopia is the direct result of divide-and-rule ethnic federalism provisions placed in Ethiopia’s Constitution by former Prime Minister Meles and the EPRDF party. These provisions were included in the Constitution without the consent of the Ethiopian population. It