Day: July 9, 2015
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Reeyot Alemu is free at last
Reeyot Alemu became one of the three journalists and two bloggers as well as six Oromo university students to have walked free from an Ethiopian prison between yesterday and today. Reeyot Alemu, a teacher by training and profession until 2000, was a regular columnist at different newspapers including Feteh, a weekly Amharic critical of the ruling EPRDF which…
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Update: despite claims Oromo student protestors still in jail
The news item published on Addis Standard on July 9th saying “At least six Oromo university students were also among three journalists and two bloggers released from Ethiopian prison yesterday, according to various reports,” was incorrect as five of the six students mentioned in the story are still in Qilinto, a prison in the outskirts of the city Addis Abeba. …
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