Six Zone9bloggers collective
members and three other independent journalists are in detention since last
April 2014. accusation of Ethiopian government which suspected them in
working with human rights organizations was changed to terrorism after 23 days of
interrogation. after three months on interrogation detention , all of them
including one more blogger in absentia were charged of terrorism at the
end of July 2014. the case is still on its Pre- trial stage which was
more focused on the format and the substance of the charges. with in
the last nine months they were taken to court nineteen times and their
constitutionally given rights has been continuously violated since their
arrest.
EHRP and Freedom Now (
DC based Human Rights advocacy organization) takes the case to the united
nation working group on arbitrary detention. this petition against the
Ethiopian Government was presented to the working group on January 26th , 2015.
the petition shows the rights violations they have faced during detention
and legal analysis why their arrest was arbitrary.
Below please download the
full petition.
http://ehrp.org/zone9-bloggers-case-presented-to-the-united-nations-working-group-on-arbitrary-detention/
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