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Last Updated: Jailed Opposition Leaders Agree To End Protest After Plea From 'elders' Four jailed Ethiopian opposition figures have said that they will end their hunger strike on March 8, their attorneys told The Associated Press. Four jailed Ethiopian opposition figures have said that they will end their hunger strike on March 8, their attorneys told The Associated Press. While speaking to the media outlet, the lawyers said that the four individuals have decided to end the demonstration as the health of the politicians deteriorated in recent days and there were also fears for their live...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Attorneys for four jailed Ethiopian opposition figures say they will end their hunger strike on Monday after 39 days. The lawyers said the health of the politicians...

Wed 17 Feb 2021 06.46 EST Last modified on Fri 26 Feb 2021 07.36 EST For two hours the doctors had waited outside the gates of Kaliti prison in Addis Ababa. Bekele Gerba, a leading Ethiopian opposition figure from the Oromo ethnic group, was very ill and due to be taken to hospital for treatment. The 60-year-old is one of 20 senior political detainees, including the most prominent, Jawar Mohammed, who have been on hunger strike for the past three weeks. After a flurry of phone calls, the prison authorities informed the waiting medical team that the prisoner, who has hypertension, would not be...

The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) last week said it had visited the defendants and confirmed they were on hunger strike. “Very close supervision is required to prevent any grave threat to their health and life,” Daniel Bekele, EHRC chief commissioner, said in a statement, adding that “reasonably justified demands of the prisoners must be addressed”. A court hearing was cancelled last week due to the defendants being too weak to attend. It came as the youth took to the streets of several cities including Ambo and Dire Dawa to protest against the continued detention of the Or...