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Ethiopia: Authorities must grant independent investigators, media unfettered access to Amhara region to probe violations ...

Amnesty 18 Aug 2023
The federal government also announced that it has detained individuals in Addis Ababa in informal detention centers, including schools. Lawyers and family members of individuals detained in Addis Ababa told Amnesty International that detainees were being denied the right to access to court and legal counsel.
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26 die in airstrike on town square in Ethiopia

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 15 Aug 2023
Two lawyers said the emergency measures also appear to be in effect in the capital, Addis Ababa, where suspects are being held at police stations, schools and other makeshift detention centers after being swept off the streets ... The other lawyer, citing police sources, said 3,000 people had been arrested in Addis Ababa.
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Ethiopia risks sliding into another civil war

Economist 15 Aug 2023
The sight of tanks rolling through towns as armed drones circle in the sky was supposed to be history ... Local officials fled ... Lawyers and activists estimate that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Amharas have been detained in Addis Ababa, the national capital, in recent days. On August 4th the police arrested an outspoken Amhara opposition MP.
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Lawyers and witnesses say Ethiopian police have arrested hundreds during state of emergency

Wtop 14 Aug 2023
Two lawyers said the emergency measures also appear to be in effect in the capital, Addis Ababa, where suspects are being held at police stations, schools and other makeshift detention centers after being swept off the streets ... The other lawyer, citing police sources, said 3,000 people had been arrested in Addis Ababa.
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Ethiopian airstrike on a town square in the restive Amhara region kills 26, health official says

Moosejaw Today 14 Aug 2023
Two lawyers said the emergency measures also appear to be in effect in the capital, Addis Ababa, where suspects are being held at police stations, schools and other makeshift detention centers after being swept off the streets ... The other lawyer, citing police sources, said 3,000 people had been arrested in Addis Ababa.
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Ethiopian airstrike on town square kills 26, health official says

Castanet 14 Aug 2023
Two lawyers said the emergency measures also appear to be in effect in the capital, Addis Ababa, where suspects are being held at police stations, schools and other makeshift detention centers after being swept off the streets ... The other lawyer, citing police sources, said 3,000 people had been arrested in Addis Ababa.
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Parents of Ethiopia Boeing crash victims seek unlawful killing verdict

The Times/The Sunday Times 10 Jul 2023
The inquest will begin today in Horsham, West Sussex, and the families’ lawyers will be seeking a ... Flight ET 302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, Kenya, crashed shortly after take-off because of a design flaw.
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Families of Britons killed in 2019 Boeing 737 Max crash in Ethiopia fight for unlawful ...

The Daily Mail 09 Jul 2023
British humanitarian workers Sam Pegram, 25, and Oliver Vick, 45, and sustainability campaigner Joanna Toole, 36, were among 157 passengers who died in March 2019 after the airliner crashed outside the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa ... Flight ET302, a passenger flight from Ethiopia to Kenya, crashed shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa.
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Ethiopian Airlines faces legal case over claims it blocks Tigrayans from travel

The Observer 31 May 2023
The suit brought by Human Rights First, a local NGO, claims the airline is preventing “Tigrayans aged 15 to 60” from buying tickets for flights from the northern Tigray region to Addis Ababa, the federal capital ... She was travelling to Addis Ababa to seek medical attention for an eye condition.
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The African Union Agenda 2063

B & FT Online 25 May 2023
Ten years ago, on May 25, 2013, I was privileged to be sitting in the then new African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as the discussion on the AU’s Agenda 2063 was finalised under the auspices of the then AUC Chair, Madam Nkosozana Dlamini Zumah, a South African.
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Ethiopia: Government should respect the right to peaceful protest and immediately release detained media staff.

Amnesty 17 Apr 2023
Residents of Addis Ababa who have been subjected to unlawful mass detentions should be charged with a recognized crime in a process that ensures their right to a fair trial ... In the meantime, lawyers representing many of the detained people in Addis Ababa said the questions put to the detainees during interrogation are ethnically motivated.
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From the wheelchair-using Black Panther to the ‘cripple suffragette’ – 10 heroes of the disabled rights movement

The Observer 09 Dec 2022
Martin Luther King, Emmeline Pankhurst, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks. As a kid, I knew these names ... They were people to look up to ... Alamy ... Yetnebersh Nigussie is an Ethiopian lawyer and leading disability rights activist. Her advocacy career began while she was a student at Addis Ababa University, where she led student committees on Aids and on women’s rights.
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Ethiopian authorities detain journalists Gobeze Sisay and Meaza Mohammed

CPJ 12 Sep 2022
Wednesday, September 7, federal police officers arrested Gobeze, editor and founder of privately owned YouTube-based broadcaster The Voice of Amhara, from his home in the capital, Addis Ababa, according to news reports, his brother Kedir Sisay, and one of his lawyers, Henok Aklilu, who both spoke to CPJ by phone.
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Ethiopia Holding Journalists in Detention Centers Without Charge

Voa News 07 Jun 2022
... lawyer who is trying to help those detained in this report from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Journalists Yayesew Shimelis and Temesgen Desalegn detained in Ethiopia

CPJ 27 May 2022
on Thursday, May 26, police officers detained Temesgen Desalegn, chief editor of privately owned Feteh magazine, from his office in Addis Ababa, the capital, according to news reports, his lawyer Henok Aklilu, who spoke to CPJ via phone, and a Facebook post by the journalist’s brother, Tariku Desalegn.
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