SOCEPP-Canada is deeply concerned about the detention of 35 individuals in Addis Ababa under the pretext of coup plot April 27, 2009
The regime says the people arrested in April 25, 2009 raids fall into two groups: some were soldiers and others civil servants. It also claims that weapons had been found, including land mines, as well as military uniforms and copies of the group’s future plans,.
Reports coming out of Ethiopia indicate that those arrested included an army general,
Teferra Mamo and a civilian Melaku Tefera, an organizer for the opposition Unity for
Democracy and Justice Party who was reportedly among the kinijit leaders arrested following the rigged 2005 election. Additionally, it is reported that the accused included relatives of the exiled leaders of Ginbot 7, Dr Berhanu Nega as well as the 80-years old father of Andargachew Tsige. (To read more click on the next line)
FREE TEDDY AFRO, STOP REPRESSION IN ETHIOPIA ...Since the elections of 2005 the regime has progressively turned to repressive means to torment and subdue the population and harass its opponents. Recently, it has concocted new laws and proclamations to promote and refine its reign of terror. After a number of visits to Ethiopia, David Kramer, Assistant Secretary at the US State Department, summed up this progression of repressive instruments, "All these developments, as I say, taken together, do, I think, suggest a closing of the political space." ‘Closing of political space’ is a language laced with diplomatic niceties that conceals the regime’s onslaught on the political and human rights of the Ethiopian population... (click here for more)