Open Letter to US Ambassador Donald Booth

03 Feb 2010: SOCEPP was pleased to hear your declaration, at the Senate Hearing to approve your nomination as US ambassador to Ethiopia, that you would exert pressure on the Meles Zenawi regime to respect the human rights of the Ethiopian people. Not that we have not heard such promises from previous US ambassadors who later turned to be apologists for the repressive regime in Addis Abeba with whom, as you yourself stated, the US has complex interests. Read More...

Letter to all immigration authorities: the right of asylum seeking Ethiopian refugees must be respected

03 Feb 2010: SOCEPP has learnt of the alarming development that quite a few countries have denied Ethiopian refugees asylum rights on grounds that are actually flimsy and without factual basis. … This is why SOCEPP calls on the USA and European countries like Britain, Norway, etc to redress the situation and to correctly and humanely reply to the asylum demands by Ethiopian refugees. Read More...

Sudan Acting against Ethiopian Refugees Again!

22 January 2010: Sudan is once again implementing measures that are negatively affecting the status of Ethiopian refuges and may end up by facilitating their deportation. It is to be noted that Sudan has in the past deported several refugees and one Azanaw Demile has disappeared while another (elder Atanaw Wassie) has died in detention and many still find themselves in Kaliti and other prisons. Read More.....

Call for the release of Bashir Makhral

04 January 2010: Canadian citizen Bashir Makhtal was, three years ago, arrested at a Kenyan border post, shackled and forced onto a night flight to Ethiopia, along with dozens of other foreign nationals. Once in Addis Ababa, he was placed in solitary confinement in a military prison. Railroaded through the state controlled courts in Addis Abeba, Bashir Makhtal was sentenced to life imprisonment on so called "terror related charges". Bashir was held in solitary for a long period with no access to lawyers and without being charged. Read More...

Call for the Immediate Release of Abera Yemaneab
SOCEPP

December 1993: Abera Yemane Ab was arrested at Bole Airport, Addis Abeba when he arrived with a peace and reconciliation conference leading a group of members of the CODEF opposition organization. He was railroaded through the EPRDF controlled courts (one court order for his release was ignored) and imprisoned illegally for 12 years. He was then sentenced formally for ten years imprisonment, released, not even compensated for his two years more imprisonment and then rearrested and sent back to prison under a new conviction and sentence of 25 years. Read More…..

End the Illegal Detention of Judge Birtukan Midiksa

Judge Birtukan Midiksa, one of the top leaders of the opposition CDU and later on the chairperson of the UDJ organization, was illegally rearrested on December 2008 and is being kept in Kaliti prison up to now under inhumane conditions. She had been jailed in 2005 for two years. Read More…..

SOCEPP Objects to the IOM Repatriation Operation
15 December 2009

SOCEPP strongly objects to the International Organization for Migration's recent repatriation of 160 Ethiopians "with dignity" from Libya back to Ethiopia. The refugees need to be resettled in third countries and not sent back to an uncertain fate under the arbitrary decision of the Meles Zenawi regime. Read More...

Denounce the Murder of Four Students in Shakiso

Federal police and the Oromia Flying Squad have jointly attacked peaceful demonstrators in the southern town of Shakiso and killed four students who were protesting against the plunder of the country's gold by the regime and its Saudi born business partner Sheikh Mohamed Alamoudi. The incident happened on December 7 and the schools in the town remain closed while the protest is spreading to other learning institutions including those university of Addis Abeba. Read More...

Statement on the opening of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

08 December 2009: The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is being attended by world leaders and it is sad to note that once again the repressive and environmentally dangerous Meles Zenawi is present and "representing" Africa.  Read More...

SOCEPP calls for the release of refugees jailed by Egypt

08 December 2009: More than 17 Ethiopians who had lived in theSudan for years have been apprehended by Egyptian police and jailed in a remote prison outside of Aswan.   !7 of the imprisonedand suffering Ethiopians are the following: Read More...

Violations of Right to Food (17 October 2009)

Egypt: Stop Brutal Killing of Asylum Seekers (17 September 2009)

Open letter to Seye Abraha and other former TPLF leaders (08 Sep. 2009)

Major Atanaw Wassie passed away in detention (24 August 2009)

Open letter to all Arab human rights organizations (17 August 2009)

Reports on human rights in Ethiopia: why flawed, why incomplete
(04 March 2009)