Further details about the Mae'kelawi torture are uncovered by this blogger. Police sources confirmed that the US resident who has been detained and tortured at Mae'kelawi is Daniel Hailemariam. He is accused of liasoning young Kinijit supporters in Ethiopia with diaspora backers. He has denied any knowledge of the diaspora kinijit leaders.
Both Endalkachew Melese and Zenebe Tadesse reside in Saris Kadisco area. Another man who has been suffering from torture at the same prison is Sisaye Bogale, employee of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia.
Torture alert:
The following persons have been arrested and tortured at Mae'kelawi:
Endalkachew Melese
Zenebe Tadesse
Hirut Kifle
Fantaye Beyene
Daniel Hailemariam
Saba Mekonen
Menbere Tsegaye
Tigist Tilahun
This must stop right now. Please ask international human rights organizations to pressurise the EPRDF government to stop torturing political dissidents.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
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18 comments:
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If Meles and his stooges think that this will frighten Ethiopians from struggling to free themselves from Mele’s apartheid system—He will find out the hard way. All the collaborators of this crime will pay in due time for their crime . The struggle is being waged under their nose, and No power under the sun can stop the urge for freedom. Long live the spirit of freedom. Every whip lash these Ethiopians pain, every life this dear Ethiopian pay for freedom is a fuel that will burn in every Ethiopian bosom – and at the end that will bring peace to reign in our beloved country, and justice to roll like river water. God bless you all.
Man let them die. For all I care, Ethiopians prefer to die without putting up a fight, so let them go to their grave. Bunch of pussies!
When will this woyane Mafia group going to stop torturing and killing our people??
Do not forget to record those which are directly or indirectly participating in this evil activity. As they are going to test it later.
Woyane is badly wounded wild animal. It doesn't trust its own shadow at this time. These individuals who have been subjected to brutal torture could be innocnet citizens. Thus, this can happen to any one on the street. Even if we assume that the individuals are activist for social changes, what crime did they commit except expressing their opinion? There is no logic or humanity in woyane and its supporters camp. We need to continue informing the international community what is going on in Ethiopia, since it has turned to earthly hell for humanbeings.
GT
Within the T.P.L.F the hard line group,repeatdly, has been saying for some time now,they will extriminate any group that will challenge their ligitmacy.After all this was not just a treat! But they are actually carring out their threat: jailing, tortuiring,and excueting AMEHARS!We the people are sitting by and counting our dead!This is subjugation (worest still)and crime of the millioniam )it can only happen only in my generation and yours too. Tenes!!!!Tenes!!!! Have you forgetton there is a jaint in you waiting to be awekend .What must we do now? It is true that the government's force is both heavly armed and composed of one tribe.However, it is also the most hated,isolated group.In fact, in the face of highly organized, coordinated, nation wide uprising that involves all the majour group, it will crumble soon than exepected.
Rhis is Amnesty International's Urgent Appeal dated Feb.2, 2007 on the eight plus some 30 other brave young people whose names are unknown for the time being.
PUBLIC AI Index: AFR 25/002/2007
02 February 2007
UA 25/07 Fear of torture or ill-treatment/ incommunicado detention
ETHIOPIA Endalkachew Melese (m), aged 23, student
Daniel Hailemariam (m)
Fantaye Beyene (m)
Hirut Kifle (f)
Menbere Tsegaye (m)
Saba Mekonnen (f)
Tigist Tilahun (f)
Zenebe Tadesse (m), aged 34
And over 30 other supporters of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy
Those named above, all supporters of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) opposition party, are being held incommunicado at the police Central Investigation Bureau prison (known as Maikelawi) in the capital, Addis Ababa. According to reports, they may have been tortured, and are at risk of further torture or ill-treatment.
Endalkachew Melese, a 23-year-old IT student, was arrested on 15 December 2006 in Addis Ababa and has been detained incommunicado since then. His family was allowed to bring him food but has not been able to see him. He has been taken to court but has not yet been formally charged with any offence. He has allegedly been tortured and accused of having links with a little-known armed opposition group, the Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF).
Over 40 other young CUD supporters are said to be held at Maikelawi prison on similar accusations. They include Zenebe Tadesse, a security guard, who was also arrested on 15 December. He is believed to have been tortured. Also detained is Daniel Hailemariam, who is said to be a US resident. The detainees include at least three women.
It is thought that these arrests are part of a campaign of harassment and intimidation of CUD supporters, following the imprisonment of the Coalition's leaders in 2005. The CUD leaders are among 76 defendants currently standing trial on charges of treason, “attempted genocide” and other capital political offences.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Several thousand suspected government opponents from the CUD and other opposition parties were detained following demonstrations in June and November 2005 in Addis Ababa and other towns. They were protesting against alleged fraud in parliamentary elections which took place on 15 May 2005. During the demonstrations, the security forces shot dead 187 demonstrators and wounded 765 others, and six police officers were killed by mobs. The detained CUD leaders, including several who were elected to parliament and to Addis Ababa City Council but had refused to take up their positions, are on trial for allegedly instigating the violence, which they deny. Amnesty International regards them as prisoners of conscience who have not used or advocated violence. The 76 defendants in court, who include 14 journalists, refused to defend themselves, with the exception of three civil society activists among them, on the grounds that they did not expect to receive a fair trial. The trial resumes on 19 February.
There have been reports of further arrests and intimidation of CUD supporters since these mass arrests. These include the detention of Alemayehu Fantu (who was tortured) and Yalemzewd Bekele, a lawyer working for the European Commission, who were detained separately in October 2006 but later provisionally released (see UA 279/06 (AFR 25/032/2006, 13 October 2006 and follow-ups, and UA 282/06, AFR 25/033/2006, 19 October 2006, and follow-up). In addition, on 17 January, another CUD youth activist, 25 year-old Tesfaye Tedesse (m), was reportedly shot dead by police in Addis Ababa
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as possible, in English or your own language:
- expressing concern at the detention of Endalkachew Melese, Zenebe Tadesse, Daniel Hailemariam and over 30 other male and female CUD supporters;
- calling on the authorities to investigate reports that the detainees have been tortured while held incommunicado at Maikelawi prison in Addis Ababa, and to guarantee that they will be treated humanely in detention;
- urging the authorities to allow the detainees immediate access to their relatives, legal representatives and any medical treatment they may require;
- calling on the authorities to act immediately to either charge the group of detainees with a recognizable criminal offence and bring them to trial according to international fair trial standards, or else to release them unconditionally.
APPEALS TO:
Minister of Justice
Mr Assefa Kesito, Ministry of Justice, PO Box 1370, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Fax: +251 11 5517775
+251 11 5520874
Email: ministry-justice@telecom.net.et
Salutation: Dear Minister
Federal Commissioner of Police
Mr Workneh Gebeyehu, Ministry of Federal Affairs, PO Box 5068, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Salutation: Dear Commissioner
COPIES TO:
Prime Minister
His Excellency Meles Zenawi, Office of the Prime Minister, PO Box 1031, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Fax: +251 11 1552020
and to diplomatic representatives of Ethiopia accredited to your country.
PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY. Check with the International Secretariat, or your section office, if sending appeals after 16 March 2007.
These are the desperate actions of a psychotic regime and its equally deranged followers who think that they can exterminate certain ethnic groups. Remember Hitler? We know what happened to him in the end.
LET THEM ALL DIE! I APPEAL TO YOU ALL TO STOP MEDDELING INTO THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF TPLF vs. ETHIOPIAN PEOPLE. THE PEOPLE ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING TO COUNTER TPLF OFFENSIVE.
IF THEY DON'T STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR THEIR FREEDOM THAT MEANS THEY DO NOT WISH TO LIVE IN FREEDOM, SO LET THEM DIE UNDER TPLF!
You cannot bring freedom without sacrifice, people are dying and disappearing already. By adding an UNDERGROUND military wing in the game TPLF created, its a few more people that may die, but at the end we are GUARANTEED freedom. The people in Ethiopia do not want to sacrifice a few more in order to gain freedom. So let them die!Small number of Polish and Jewish created an UNDERGROUND military wing against GERMAN NAZI EVIL FORCE for freedom, they may NOT have won over the German superior force, but they died killing. There are several people ALIVE today to tell the tale. If they did not put up a fight, they too would have been incinerated in one of the many gas chembers operated by Germans, but they chose to fight, and fight they did. They killed unspecified number of GERMAN PIGS and they are alive because they fought! They would have died like the many millions who chose for others to liberate them. This is NOT to blame those who died in the hands of GERMAN PIGS for not putting up fights, INSTEAD WE ARE CROWNING THOSE THAT DIED FIGHTING AND THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE BECAUSE THEY FOUGHT FOR THEIR SOUL.
If Ethiopians want to be free from TPLF soft grip, all they have to do is fight for their freedom. Believe you me, if the Polish and Jewish underground fought under Hitler's Germany, there is no reason for Ethiopians NOT to overwhelm the TPLF OCCUPYING FORCE to get it capitulate in few weeks time, so we all can celebrate the Ethiopian Millennium together happily.
VICTORY TO THOSE WHO WANT IT BADLY AND ARE WILLING TO PAY FOR IT IN BLOOD AND LIMBS!!!!!!
The above annonymous.
You are simply a pathetic dude who do not have nerve to do anything. You should have said that you are ready to kill and die for those people who are in prison of woyane. What you have said, instead of what you should have done, is the helpless people should be killed. You are waiting for somebody to sacrifies for you and you want to enjoy what the "victory" offers to you!! how stupid is that?
You shut up! Pussy! You may be one of those pussies who kneel down in DC asking for the release of our leaders. TPLF HAS ALREADY DECLARED WAR ON ETHIOPIANS LONG TIME AGO, ITS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF TRUE-ETHIOPIANS TO RISE UP TO THE OCCASSION AND FIGHT BACK FIRE-WITH-FIRE or shut up and die begging. You know that the game has changed, TPLF has told her pigs to shoot without hesitation. Ther is no blinking anymore, either you or the enemy has to die for one you to live without the threate of the other! simple as that! That moment has come, either its your brother/sister/mother/father of the enemy (TPLF) soldier. They have already determined to kill anyone that asks for freedom and democracy in our own country. Its time for us to up the ante and respond with fire, rather than dying like a sheep.
Ez,
You are doing a great job. Amnesty International has issued torture alert for the people you have listed. May God protect you.
Agere Ethiopia!!
WHAT IS NEXT ON MELES AND HIS PUPPETS AGENDA???...HE HAS BEEN KILLING AND TORTURING FOR 17 YEARS AND THE WORLD KNOWS ABOUT ALL THIS.WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO STOP THIS CHIRAK FORM DESTROYING MY PEOPLE AND MY BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY...EVEN HITLER HAD BEEN STOPED...MELESE NEED A LESSON LIKE SADAM HUSSEN...VERY VERY SOON.
The main difference between Meles now and Meles 35 years ago is that Meles 35 years ago, as a young person, had the dream and the ambition to disintegrate Ethiopia. Today's Meles has already realized his dream; he doesn't dream anymore because there isn't much evil left to dream for. The jailing, the killing, and his recent hard-to-come-back journey to Somalia are not new dreams; they are all the spillover effects of his original dream
http://www.mahder.com/News/article/sid=644.html
Damn aren't you guys tired to singing the same song for God knows how many years? Woyane this, Meles that, TPLF this, please change the tunes for a bit
those who tried to assasinate the hard working government of ethiopia should be perscuited and or left in jail for the rest of their life. They are greedy and they want to take the people's money after they are elected as the leaders. specially Daniel Hailermariam and Edndalkachew are the most Fessam and part of the stupid team. They are not really try to bring peace to the country but they have a dream of living reach after this. we will say to them good luck in jail and dream on.
those who commit treason must die with out delay because they not only waste our time but also they are poisoning our people with a bad idea. their dream is they want to be rich after they become some body in ethiopia someday. all we have to say to them is keep dreaming and long life for them in Makelawi. Let Makelawi be their eternal home.
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