Professor Mesfin-Wolde Mariam and Berhanu Nega have been charged with inciting university students to riot and of membership to an illegal political party. The detention of the two men was heavily ...

On May 18,2001 the Federal High Court in Addis Ababa ( a court ruling in Ethiopia ) returned to custody for further detention Prof. Mesfin Woldemariam, the founder and first chairman of Ethiopia's ...

On Tuesday May 8, 2001, the police arrested Prof. Mesfin Woldemariam, the founder and first chairman of Ethiopia's Human Rights Council (EHRCO), and Dr. Berhanu Nega, an academic and human rights ...

Professor Mesfin Woldemariam, who was imprisoned along with the pardoned CUD leaders, said this week that the current state of affairs within the party leadership is just a culmination of long ...

On 9-14 April 2002, two representatives of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders carried out a mission to investigate the situation of human rights defenders in Ethiopia. The ...