Ethiopia: Oromia Regional State under Siege
HRLHA Urgent Action FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 December, 2015 The brutal crackdown against Oromoprotesters by the Agazi Special Squad and Liyu Police (literally special police) continues unabated in different parts of the regional state of Oromia. Reports coming from all around Oromia Regional State indicate that Oromia Regional State is…
Oromia/Ethiopia: Region-Wide, Heavy-Handed Crackdown on Peaceful Protesters
HRLHA Urgent Action December 05, 2015 For Immediate Release The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa expresses its grave concern at the continuation of gross human rights violations in Oromia Regional State, violations that have regularly occurred since 1991 when the TPLF/EPRDF came into power. The most recent…
Kenya: Oromo Refugees and Asylum Seekers are at Risk
Kenya: Oromo Refugees and Asylum Seekers are at Risk October 25, 2015 For Immediate Release Appeal To: The President of the Republic of Kenya Your Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta President of the Republic of Kenya Nairobi PO. Box 74434-00200 Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: 254 203 247000 Your Excellency, First of all,…
Kenya: Oromo Refugees and Asylum Seekers are at Risk
HRLHA’s Urgent Action and Appeal October 25, 2015 For Immediate Release Appeal To: The President of the Republic of Kenya Your Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta President of the Republic of Kenya Nairobi PO. Box 74434-00200 Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: 254 203 247000 Your Excellency, First of all, the Human Rights League…
Oromia/ Ethiopia: Oromia Paramilitary Commits Torture and Rape
October 12, 2015, HRLHA Urgent Action: Harassments and intimidations through arbitrary arrests, beatings, torture and rapes were committed in Ada’a Berga district Western Showa Zone of Oromia Regional State against young Oromo nationals on September 24 and 25, 2015. More than 30 young Oromos were picked up from their homes…
Ethiopia: The endless suffering of Oromo Nationals continued even after the landmark victory claim of the EPRDF in the election of May 2015
HRLHA Urgent Action For Immediate Release August 29, 2015 Even though the government of Ethiopia claimed 100% of the victory during the parliamentary election of May 2015, harassment and intimidation through arbitrary arrests, kidnappings and disappearances of civilians have continued unabated in all corners of the Oromia Regional State under…
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President Obama’s Visit to Ethiopia is an insult to America’s Democratic Traditions
July 18, 2015 An Open Letter to President Barak Obama on his Ethiopia Visit Dear Mr. President Obama, The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa wants to express its deep concern about what it regards as the wrong decision made by you and your staff in making a…
Ethiopian Election 2015: Is Democracy Prosperous or Destitute?
HRLHA Press Release June 28, 2015 Public, For Immediate Release Ethiopia holds general elections every five years; the most recent one was held on May 24, 2015. The ruling TPLF/EPRDF party, which has been in power for the past twenty-four years, officially announced on this past Monday, June 22, 2015…
UNHCR-Urgent Life – saving Assistance is needed to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Yemen
May 16, 2015 HRLHA’s Appeal to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Mr.Antonio Guterres United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) Case Postale 2500 CH-1211 Geneve 2 Depot Suisse Email. infoDesk@ohchr.org;GUTERRES@unhcr.org Attention To: Mr Amin Awad Middle East and North Africa Bureau UNHCR, Geneva Dear Mr. Guterres, The…
Ethiopia: The Endless Violence against Oromo Nationals Continues
Fear of Torture HRLHA Urgent Action ______________________________________________ For Immediate Release May 7, 2015 Harassments and intimidations through arbitrary arrests, kidnappings and disappearances have continued unabated in Ambo and the surrounding areas against Oromo youths and intellectuals since the crackdowns of last year April, 2014, when more than 79 Oromos, mostly…
Ethiopia: The Ethiopian Government is Responsible for the Inhuman Treatments against Ethiopian Refugees and Asylum Seekers around the World
April 25, 2015 HRLHA Press Release The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa has been greatly saddened by the cold-blooded killing of 30 Christian Ethiopian refugees and asylum seekers in the past week in Libya by a group called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria/ ISIS. The HRLHA…
U.S Department of State Endorsing of Upcoming Elections: Denial and Disrespect
The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) 23 – April – 2015 HRLHA Statement: The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) strongly opposes to the position that the U.S Department of State has taken in regards to the upcoming Ethiopian election and the overall…
Ethiopia: TPLF’s Leaders Arrogance and Contempt: Inviting Further Bloodshed and Loss of Lives
HRLHA Statement February 23, 2015 Since the downfall of the military government of Ethiopia in 1991, the political and socioeconomic lives of the country have totally been controlled by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front/TPLF leaders and business institutions. As soon as the TPLF controlled Addis Ababa, the capital city, in…
ETHIOPIA: Political Violence Intensifies as the Fifth National Election Approaches
HRLHA Urgent Action February 16, 2015 According to a schedule released by the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia, citizens will go to the polls to elect a new government on 24 May 2015. It will be Ethiopia’s fifth national election since EPRDF came to power in 1991. In connection with…
ETHIOPIA: Flagrant Human Rights Abuse against Oromo Nationals Continues
HRLHA Urgent Action Feb 01, 2015 For immediate Release It is cruel, brutal and inhumane to hang any person for any wrongdoing particularly in Ethiopia, a country that claims democracy is its core principle of governance. The execution of Ketama Wubetu and his friend by Ethiopian solders- by hanging on…
Claiming Human Rights – in Ethiopia
Claiming Human Rights – in Ethiopia The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is a member of the United Nations and the African Union. It has ratified many UN Human Rights Conventions (compare list on the right) and thus has made binding international commitments to adhere to the standards laid down…
Ethiopia: Media Being Decimated
Legal, Policy Reforms Crucial Prior to May Elections JANUARY 22, 2015 (Nairobi) – The Ethiopian government’s systematic repression of independent media has created a bleak landscape for free expression ahead of the May 2015 general elections, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. In the past year, six…
ETHIOPIA: Oromo Voices from Ethiopia Prisons
HRLHA Urgent Action Jan 05. 2015 For immediate Release Since the March-April 2014 crackdowns against the peaceful Oromo protesters who have protested against the Ethiopian Federal Government’s plan of annexation of 36 small Oromia towns to the capital city of Addis Ababa under the pretext of the “Addis Ababa Integrated…
HRLHA Holds Public Meetings with Oromo Community Members
HRLHA Holds Public Meetings with Oromo Community Members The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) held, over the past three weeks, public meetings with members of Oromo Communities in four cities of Canada and discussed human rights issues in the Horn of Africa in general and in…
Ethiopia: Release protestors, stop crushing political opposition
Amnesty December 11, 2014 (Amnesty International) — On 5 and 6 December, security services in Addis Ababa arrested an estimated 90 people during attempts to stage a demonstration by a coalition of nine opposition political parties. The arrests are the latest manifestation of the authorities’ hostility towards the political opposition…
ETHIOPIA: Outbreak of Deadly Disease in Jail, Denial of Graduation of University Students
HRLHA – URGENT ACTION December 10, 2014 The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) would like to express its deep concern over the outbreak of a deadly disease at Gimbi Jail in Western Wollega, as a result of which one inmate has already died and sixty (60)…
Ethiopia: The Endless Violence against Oromo Nationals Must be Halted
Ethiopia: The Endless Violence against Oromo Nationals Must be Halted Fear of Torture, HRLHA Press Release __________________________________________________ November 16, 2014 Harassments and intimidations through arbitrary arrests, indefinite detentions without trial, kidnappings and disappearances have continued unabated in Ambo and the surrounding areas against peaceful protestors since the crackdowns of April,…
Ethiopia: The unresolved “Border Dispute” has claimed more lives in eastern Ethiopia HRLHA Urgent Action
November, 09, 2014 The Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa (HRLHA) would like to express its deepest concerns about the so-called “Border dispute” between Oromo and Ogadenia nationals which began at the beginning of this month- for the second time in four years- in eastern Hararge Zone of…
ETHIOPIA: ‘BECAUSE I AM OROMO’: SWEEPING REPRESSION IN THE OROMIA REGION OF ETHIOPIA October 28, 2014
Amnesty International released a-166 page report on the repression committed against Oromo by the TPLF. Please find the report in PDF herewith. amnesty“I was arrested for about eight months. Some school students had been arrested, so their classmates had a demonstration to ask where they were and for them to…
