Ethiopia: Media Roundup of Reactions to Announced Release of Political PrisonersThe news was a major triumph for youth protesters across Ethiopia who have been demanding political reform for the past couple of years. (Reuters photo)Tadias MagazineBy Tadias StaffJanuary 6th, 2018New York (TADIAS) — This week Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn stunned Ethiopians around the globe when he announced plans to free political prisoners at a press conference in Addis Ababa on Wednesday in order to facilitate political dialogue. The news was a major triumph for youth protesters across Ethiopia who have been demanding political reform for the past couple of years. As Yacob Hailemariam, an attorney based in Addis Ababa who was a former senior prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, told the New York Times: “It was absolutely not clear what the Prime Minister was saying. Will the release only include well-known figures like Bekele Gerba, an ethnic Oromo politician detained since December 2015?

Source: Ethiopian News January 06, 2018 05:26 UTC