Ethiopian Court Jails Activist For Over 6 Years
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published May 25, 2017 | 05:20 PM
ADDIS ABABA, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 25th May, 2017 ) - An Ethiopian court jailed a former opposition spokesman for over six years Thursday as rights groups urged the UN to press for a probe into a crackdown on anti-government protests.
Judges in the capital Addis Ababa imposed a jail sentence of six years and six months on Yonatan Tesfaye, the former spokesman for the opposition Blue Party who was found guilty earlier this month of encouraging terrorism.
Yonatan was arrested in December 2015 after writing on Facebook that the government had used "force against the people instead of using peaceful discussion with the public." "We'll appeal," Blue Party chairman Yeshiwas Assefa told AFP. "This is freedom of expression."
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