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Friends and Fellow Human Rights Activists Remember Engineer Tesfahun Chemeda (OPride) – Engineer Tesfahun Chemeda, a fierce Oromo rights advocate and a former UNHCR recognized refugee, died yesterday of undisclosed illness in Kaliti prison, where he was serving a life sentence under concocted charges of plotting to overthrow government, reports said. Chemeda was nabbed along with a close friend Mesfin Abebe in 2007 from Nairobi, where they lived as refugees since 2005, by Kenyan anti-terrorism police and was later deported to Ethiopia, according to Oromo Support Group (OSG), a UK-based human rights organization. “The two men were picked up in a restaurant by Kenyan anti-terrorist police on 27 April 2007 and taken to Kamukunji police station, where they were held overnight before being transferred to Giriri police station,” OSG wrote in 2010 press release. - Read the Full Story (OPride): opride/oromsis/news/horn-of-africa/3701-oromo-activist-tesfahun-chemeda-dies-in-prison-while-serving-life-sentence
Posted on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 02:48:36 +0000

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