Twenty-five-year-old Shukri Shafe Guled comes from the Somali Regional State in Ethiopia, but has been living in Australia since 2010. In June 2016, he and other protesters gathered in Melbourne to demonstrate against the visit of an Ethiopian delegation that included the Somali Regional State president, Abdi Mohamoud Omar, known as Abdi Iley, who is accused of human rights abuses back home. Guled explains pro-government supporters took his photograph and told him that “within 15 minutes,” they would “punish” his relatives living in Ethiopia. It's a practice that's been occurring in the Somali Regional State for a number of years, he says. Horne says HRW previously documented human rights abuses by the Ethiopian army when Abdi was the head of security in the Somali Regional State, and says Australia needs to improve its vetting procedures.

Source: Ethiopian News November 07, 2016 17:48 UTC