29/02/08 (B436) SOCEPP : Mise à jour des informations sur les déportés du Soudan. Le Soudan a déporté des douzaines d’Ethiopiens dont Atanaw Wassie, les condamnant probablement à la mort en Ethiopie – UPDATE ON THE DEPORTEEES FROM THE SUDAN (En Anglais)

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Februray 27/2007

UPDATE ON THE DEPORTEEES FROM THE SUDAN

Four of the Ethiopian refugees deported from the Sudan along with elder (Shaleka) Atanaw Wassie have been released and instructed to appear in court to follow their case.

They were held in Kailiti and are accused of fomenting an armed rebellion against the regime in place.

The released are: Anteneh, Shebabaw Assefa, Mamaye Abebe and Abebe Yigletu.

The Sudan has been deporting dozens of Ethiopians and the last batch involving the elder Atanaw Wassie was sent to a possible ”death” as the regime had accused all of incting a rebellion against it, transporting arms across the border, belonging to an illegal armed group,etc..

Atanaw Wassie is 75 and ailing.

His whereabouts is not known and there are fears for his safety both because of maltreatment and of lack of adequte medcal care. The Sudan, on its part, contineus to hold very many Ethiopian and Eritrean refugees in horrible conditions of detention and threatens to continue with the deportations.

The bleak and dangerous situation has delivered the hapless refugees to unscrupulous traffickers who take the refugees across the Egyptian desert to Libya or Israel and to more suffering and possible death. Israel and Libya have also deported the refugees and the condition of detention of Ethiopians in the Libyan desert is very inhumane.

SOCEPP calls on the Sudan to cease the mistreatment and deporation of the refugees and demands the EPRDF to immediately release elder Atanaw Wassie and all the other deportees kept behind bars.

INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS INJUSTICE EVERYWHERE
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17/02/08 (B435) SOCEPP : February 15/2008 – Communiqué pour la libération de deux prisonniers politiques en Ethiopie, oubliés actuellement. Libérez Abera Yemaneab et Tamrat Layne – FORGOTTEN POLITICAL PRISONERS – RELEASE ABERA YEMANEAB ABD TAMRAT LAYNE

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Abera Yemaneab flew to Addis Ababa from his exile home, Washington DC, to take part in a Peace and Reconcilation Conference. It was December 1993 and he was arrssted at the airport and taken to prison. In April of the same year, a court ordered that he should be released but the EPRDF regime kept him in prison and after 12 years of detention sentenced him to a ten years term. He was released,denied the right to join his family in America, rearrested and sentenced to a 25 years prison term.

Tamrat Layne was Prime Minster of the EPRDF regime and one of those who was backing the illegal actions and human rights violations. His turn came when his political differences with Meles Zenawi and the power holding Tigrean front (TPLF) became acute and he was railroaded as a corrupt offical and sent to prison. He was denied due process and sentenced again and again by a vindictive regime. Tamrat,unlike the TPLF leader Seye Abrha who is now released from prison, does not have any powerful supporters crying for his release and it seems probable that he will pass years and years behind bars despite his children’s appeal for his release. Tamrat was part of the regime, like the released Seye, and is respsonsible for many human rights violations but his imprisonment is not linked this or to his alleged corruption.He is jailed because he differed politically with the ruling clique.

Both Abera and Tamrat are illegally behind bars. They seem to be « forgotten » by many. SOCEPP stands against this forgetfulness and calls for the immediate release of thse victims of injustice.

Release Abera Yemaneab and Tamrat Layne!

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