According to eyewitness accounts on Monday 12 April Eritrean troops passed through the town of Adwa in Tigray where they opened fire at people on a busy main street close to a bus station. Amnesty International found that Eritrean troops killed hundreds of civilians in Axum in what likely amounted to a crime against humanity on 28-29 November and indiscriminately shot at civilians in Adwa killing three of them and wounding 19 others on 12 April 2021.
Ethiopia Launches Probe Into Alleged Rights Violations
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Amnesty international ethiopia. Ethiopias planned elections in June 2021 could determine the fate of the country and impact regional stability. Ethiopian parliament approves amnesty for political prisoners. The report covers the period between December 2018 and December 2019.
Amnesty International had accused the Ethiopian government of committing grave violations between December 2018 and December 2019 in some parts of Amhara and Oromia regions. AFR 2541142021 This public statement is in response to the press statement released by the Attorney Generals Office AG of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia about its criminal investigation of the massacre in Axum in the. We are extremely concerned at reports coming out of Ethiopia this morning of further widespread arrests of Muslim protesters.
Amnesty International USA Hosts Human Rights Day Briefing on the Crisis in Ethiopias Tigray Region. Amnesty International finds possible Ethiopian atrocities Watch PBS NewsHour Online PBS. The Ethiopian governments ongoing repressive crackdown on freedom of speech and the right to peacefully protest has to end now said Claire Beston Amnesty Internationals Ethiopia researcher.
Amnesty International finds evidence of possible atrocities in Ethiopia PBS NewsHour. Amnesty International the global human rights advocating group accused the government of Ethiopia for severe violations of human rights from rape to torture under the regime of the reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who came to power two years ago. The gruesome evidence shows bodies being carried away on stretchers or strewn across the town of Mai-Kadra May Cadera in the western.
Ethiopias Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. A new Amnesty International report issued Friday Feb. 26 2021 says soldiers from Eritrea systematically killed many hundreds of people the large majority men.
Scores and probably hundreds of civilians have been massacred in the growing conflict in Tigray in northern Ethiopia Amnesty International says. At least 54 people were killed in a rebel attack in Ethiopia s restive Oromia region at the weekend according to Amnesty International. Over 50 ethnic Amhara killed in attack on village by armed group.
In advance of Human Rights Day Amnesty International will host a virtual briefing on the human rights challenges expected in 2021. The Abiy administration must do its part to ensure that the Ethiopian people can fully realize the reforms and respect for human rights and inclusive governance. Map of Ethiopia.
AI Amnesty International Original link. The briefing will focus on the human rights crisis in Ethiopias. A new report by Amnesty International accuses Ethiopias security forces of extrajudicial killings and mass detentions.
Amnesty International can reveal that at least 54 people from the Amhara ethnic group were killed in an attack late on 1 November by suspected members. Amnesty is urging Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to investigate the allegations which the group says have occurred since he came to power. 7 April 2021 Document ID.
Amnesty International has confirmed reports of a massacre in northern Ethiopia where scores and likely hundreds of people were stabbed or hacked to death. Amnesty International has confirmed that Eritrean troops killed three people and injured at least 19 in another unprovoked attack on civilians in the centre of Adwa town earlier this week. Amnesty International has verified video footage and photographs that show scores of people were attacked with knives and machetes with hundreds feared dead in Ethiopias Tigray Region on the night of 9 November.
The government had called on the organization to review its report which it. Ethiopia on the brink Amnesty International on Friday called on Ethiopian security forces to stop the use of deadly force on protesters There is never justification for the use of lethal force when it is not to protect lives Amnesty Internationals Director for East and Southern Africa Deprose Muchena wrote in a statement received by TODAY NEWS AFRICA in Washington DC. Abiy has introduced a.
