On 4 October, 2016 Natnael Feleke, a Zone-9 Blogger and two of his friends, Tsedeke Digafe and Addisalem Mulugeta were taken into detention. The reason given by the police about their arrest is that while sitting at Lalibela restaurant and talking loudly about the death of hundreds on 2 October this year at the yearly thanksgiving ceremony in Bishoftu, Ethiopia. They blamed the government for the deaths that occurred, and thus uttered ‘seditious remarks’. Natnael and his friends were brought to the Federal First Instance court, Kera Branch Criminal Bench awaiting a decision on the bail issue. Zone-9 bloggers are one of the finalist for this year’s MEA (https://thoolen.wordpress.com/2016/09/16/ethiopia-high-commissioner-marathon-runner-and-mea-jury-agree/)
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Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 
February 29, 2020 at 11:14
Thanks we are free now from the TPLF lead junta.
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