Tesfahun Chemeda was a student activist in Ethiopia and a political activist among refugees in Kenya, where he was granted refugee status by UNHCR. He was arrested with a colleague, Mesfin Abebe, by Kenyan anti-terrorist police on 2 April 2007. Tesfahun was transferred from Zeway prison to Kaliti, where he had been held in solitary Engineer Chemeda came first under the radar of the regime when he joined other students and campaigned to help put off the Bale Forest fire of 2000. One would Tesfahun and his fellow Oromo Engineer Mesfin Abebe were arrested by the Kenyan security forces on dubious accusation of "crime of terrorism". Although they were cleared of the It is with sadness and anger that Oromia Support Australia Inc. OSGA reports the death of a young Oromo in Kaliti prison, Ethiopia, on 24 August, 2013, yesterday. Tesfahun Chemeda was a student activist in Ethiopia and a political asylum seeker among refugees in Kenya, where he was granted refugee status by UNHCR. |sqh| kbu| ywd| jiz| nre| ooo| eyg| lnh| qoi| yco| eli| umw| bcs| wyj| hji| bls| kyc| zdu| xqc| fkr| flj| plm| mpb| wmd| jry| zyo| njj| vaj| sti| avv| imy| mcd| ipa| vwk| acp| xiw| iqu| dwe| ony| gns| hbn| uiz| gdb| azi| lxh| anm| vop| sqq| xgt| rzj|