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Government Outlaws Most Human Rights Work, Imprisons Opposition Leaders
January 8, 2009
In the space of just eight days, the Ethiopian government has outlawed independent human rights work and jailed one of the country's most prominent opposition leaders for life.
New Law Ratchets up Repression