Injustice Confirmed in Ethiopia
SOCEPP: A court in Addis Abeba, where all courts are controlled by the State, has quashed the appeals by Eskinder Nega (a journalist and blogger sentenced to 18 years in jail) and Andualem Aragie (an ....
Ruling by Ethiopia’s Supreme Court in Eskinder Nega Case Another Missed Opportunity
Today, Freedom Now, Amnesty International, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, the Committee to Free Eskinder Nega, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, English PEN, the ....
World Press Freedom Day: Free Press Stamped Out in Ethiopia
SOCEPP: There is no freedom of the press in Ethiopia. The attempt to dupe the world with claims to the contrary did not have the life of a dew. Dozens of independent journalists were ....
Quote of the Week: Of Appeals to the Past
"Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretation of the present. What animates such appeals is not only disagreement about what happened in the past and what the past was, but ....