“They don’t have any evidence about any act of terror. I believe in peaceful civil resistance to replace dictators like Meles Zenawi,” said Elias Kifle, the editor-in-chief of Ethiopian Review, who was given a life sentence in absentia.  The ...

Elias Kifle, who was convicted in absentia and runs the U.S.-based Ethiopian Review website, received a life sentence, said Federal High Court Judge Endeshaw Adane. Woubshet Taye, former deputy editor of the now-closed Awramba Times and Reeyot ...

Exiled internet blogger Elias Kifle was sentenced in absentia to life in prison.  Kifle is editor of the U.S.-based Ethiopian Review website, which regularly features scathing criticisms of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government. A three-judge federal ...

Judge Endeshaw Adane gave the verdicts Thursday. Ethiopia's federal high court found Elias Kifle, editor-in-chief of a U.S.-based opposition website, guilty of terrorism. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Kifle was tried in absentia.

The three journalists include Woubshet Taye Abebe of the shuttered Awramba Times, Reeyot Alemu Gobebo of Feteh, independent weekly newspaper, and U.S.-based exiled journalist Elias Kifle, who was tried in absentia. National Democratic Party leader Zerihun ...

Elias Kifle, exiled Ethiopian editor of the Washington-based opposition website Ethiopian Review, was handed a death sentence in absentia today, which followed a 2007 life sentence given to him also in absentia on charges of treason for his coverage of the ...

Elias Kifle, exiled Ethiopian editor of the Washington-based opposition website Ethiopian Review , was handed a life sentence in absentia today, which followed a 2007 life sentence given to him also in absentia on charges of treason for his ...

Among those charged are the head of a U.S.-based opposition website, Elias Kifle, who was tried in absentia; Wubshet Taye, a former deputy editor-in-chief of the defunct Amharic weekly Awramba Times; and columnist Reeyot Alemu of the independent ...

It is vital for the freedom of the press and freedom of opinion to be safeguarded in Ethiopia.” Journalists Reyot Alemu, Woubshet Taye and Elias Kifle (in absentia), ENDP leader Zerihun Gebre-Egziabher (Ethiopian National Democratic Party) and opposition ...

Reeyot Alemu, a columnist with the independent weekly Feteh, Deputy Editor Woubshet Taye of the now-defunct weekly Awramba Times, and Elias Kifle, exiled editor of the Washington-based opposition website Ethiopian Review, were convicted today in Federal ...