Ethiopia: The World Movement is thrilled to learn that Dr. Merera Gudina was released on January 17, after serving more than year in pre-trial detention. Dr. Gudina, a scholar and chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), was arrested and accused of violating Ethiopia’s 10-month state of emergency. He was released along with 527 others as part of a larger government amnesty…
On December 6, 2017, Citizen Lab released their new report entitled “Champing at the Cyberbait,” which exposed a new commercial spyware being used to target Oromo dissidents living abroad. Citizen Lab reported that the targeted activists had received emails with a URL imitating a video portal; when clicked, the user was asked to install an…
Ethiopia: Oromo activist Dr. Merera Gudina has now spent a year in detention. Dr. Gudina’s trial concluded on November 30, 2017, and his verdict will be delivered on January 3, 2018. The trial took place a full year after the scholar and chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC) was arrested and accused of violating Ethiopia’s…
