A British citizen and an active voice in Ethiopia’s political opposition in exile, Tsege, now 62, remains in a notorious Ethiopian prison, facing a death sentence. That Sunday morning, Hailemariam was given no explanation as to why Tsege was finally allowed to call her after so many months. He visited Ethiopia again in 2005 to campaign for an opposition coalition in the 2005 elections, and was arrested—and allegedly tortured—in the aftermath. “It’s an example of the British government not pulling out all the stops to help a British citizen who’s in desperate trouble abroad. “They are a government that’s very arbitrary,” says Hailemariam, Tsege’s partner.

Source: Ethiopian News March 04, 2017 08:26 UTC