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Reflection on the legacy of PM Meles by leading UK politicians

admin — Sat, 04 May 2013 19:19:21 +0000

Freedom Now urges the Ethiopian government to release Eskinder Nega

admin — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:03:09 +0000

Washington, D.C.: In an opinion released today by Freedom Now, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found the Government of Ethiopia’s continued detention of independent Ethiopian journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega a violation of international law. The panel of five independent experts from four continents held that the government violated Mr. Nega’s rights to free expression and due process. The UN Working Group called for his immediate release.

Mr. Nega is serving an 18-year prison sentence on terror and treason charges in response to his online articles and public speeches about the Arab Spring and the possible impact of such movements on the political situation in Ethiopia. Arrested in September 2011, Mr. Nega was held without charge or access to an attorney for nearly two months before authorities charged him under Ethiopia’s widely criticized anti-terror laws. This is the eighth time during his 20-year career as an independent journalist and publisher that the Ethiopian government has detained Mr. Nega. His appeal has been repeatedly postponed, most recently on March 27, 2013.

In the attached opinion, released in conjunction with an op-ed by the renowned Ethiopian opposition leader and former prisoner of conscience Birtukan Mideksa, the UN Working Group found that the application of overly broad anti-terror laws against Mr. Nega constituted an “unjustified restriction” on his right to freedom of expression. The UN Working Group’s opinion also recognized “several breaches of Mr. Nega’s fair trial rights,” further rendering his continued detention arbitrary under international law.

“The Ethiopian government cannot continue to use anti-terrorism legislation to muzzle the work of independent journalists, even when it does not like what is being reported,” said Freedom Now Executive Director Maran Turner. “The targeting of journalists by resorting to overly broad anti-terror laws, just like the use of anti-state charges in the pre-9/11 era, is a violation of the internationally protected right to free expression and undermines international efforts to address real security threats.”

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Interview with PM Hailemariam Dessalegn

admin — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:56:19 +0000

Ninth EPRDF congress in Bahir Dar

admin — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:44:22 +0000

Brazilian doctor charged for killing several patients so as to free hospital space

admin — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:53:59 +0000

A Brazilian doctor was charged for killing seven patients to free up beds at a hospital intensive care unit. Prosecutor for Brazilian Health Ministry investigator believes that the doctor may have also been responsible for as many as 300 deaths.

Prosecutors said Dr. Virginia Soares de Souza and her medical team administered muscle relaxing drugs to patients, then reduced their oxygen supply, causing them to die of asphyxia at the Evangelical Hospital in the southern city of Curitiba.

De Souza, a 56-year-old widow, was arrested last month and charged with seven counts of aggravated first degree murder. Three other doctors, three nurses and a physiotherapist who worked under De Souza have also been charged with murder.

Prosecutors said wiretaps of De Souza's phone conversations revealed that her motive was to free up hospital beds for other patients.

"I want to clear the intensive care unit. It's making me itch," she said in one recording released to Brazilian media. "Unfortunately, our mission is to be go-betweens on the springboard to the next life," she added in the same phone call.

De Souza's lawyer, Elias Mattar Assad, said investigators had misunderstood how an intensive care unit works and she would prove her innocence.

More cases are expected to emerge as investigators comb through 1,700 medical records of patients who died in the last seven years at the hospital, where De Souza headed the intensive care unit.

"We already have more than 20 cases established, and there are nearly 300 more that we are looking into," the chief investigator assigned by Brazil's Health Ministry, Dr. Mario Lobato, said on Globo TV's Fantastico program on Sunday.

If prosecutors prove that De Souza killed 300 patients, this could be one of the world's worst serial killings, rivaling the notorious case of Harold Shipman, the English doctor who was found to have killed at least 215 patients.

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Watch Live President Obama's State of the Union address

admin — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:17:28 +0000

Artist Tamrat Molla passed away

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 04:12:53 +0000

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admin — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:44:09 +0000

Meles: great military leader

admin — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:35:58 +0000

Rest In Peace Abel Bereket: June 8th 2012 - January 16th 2012

Shebapost — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:29:59 +0000

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart;

do not be afraid...for I am with you...declares the Lord" Jeremiah 1:5,8

Rest In God's Peace Little Angel Abel<3

Abel Bereket was born on June 8th,2012.A very happy and healthy baby until he had a little cold/flu symptom on Sunday January 13th.

His dad Mengisteab was holding him while Abel was taking a nap when he noticed something was wrong with Abel's breathing.The distraught parents Freweyne and Mengisteab had him rushed to the hospital.Abel was pronounced dead on January 16th after being on life support since he got to the Hospital.

No parents should have to go through buriyng a child,We trust that God does not make any mistakes..We pray for God to give the family strenght during this difficult time.

Friends of the family kindly asks for everyone to please help with what they can to cover the unexpected costs of funeral for Abel.Please Donate to this Paypal account.

The account number is :Mengistabbereket@yahoo.com

https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/send-money-online

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