Islington Tribune Yemi Hailemariam, who lives in Clerkenwell with her children, is campaigning for the release of her British national husband Andargachew Tsege By KOOS COUVÉE THE wife of a Holloway man held on death row in Ethiopia met with Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond for the first time this week – 18 months after he
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By Christina Goldbaum, OZY On April 2, as I waited in a doctor’s office near Nairobi, the anchor of Kenya’s morning news broadcast began reporting what would prove to be a horrific attack on Garissa University by the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab. As the early news trickled in, some people around me looked at the
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By Christina Goldbaum, OZY On April 2, as I waited in a doctor’s office near Nairobi, the anchor of Kenya’s morning news broadcast began reporting what would prove to be a horrific attack on Garissa University by the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab. As the early news trickled in, some people around me looked at the
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Reprieve Organization The Foreign Office is hosting a high-level trade event for Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister tomorrow (21st), despite the ongoing detention of a British man kidnapped by the Ethiopian authorities 16 months ago. Foreign minister Grant Shapps will share a stage tomorrow with Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adanhom at the UK Ethiopia Trade Investment Forum,
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Helawit with Menabe and Yilak and her mother, Yemi Helawit with Menabe and Yilak and her mother, Yemi. Below: Helawit at the award ceremony with Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty Helawit at the award ceremony with Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty THE daughter of a British man held on death row in Ethiopia has been lauded
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Helawit with Menabe and Yilak and her mother, Yemi Helawit with Menabe and Yilak and her mother, Yemi. Below: Helawit at the award ceremony with Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty Helawit at the award ceremony with Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty THE daughter of a British man held on death row in Ethiopia has been lauded
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A Foreign Office minister who recently visited Ethiopia failed to raise the case of a British father of three who was kidnapped by Ethiopian forces 15 months ago – despite concerns for his welfare, after it emerged he has been transferred to a brutal political prison. Andargachew ‘Andy’ Tsege, from London, was abducted in transit
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The father of three and lifelong crusader for democracy has been in secret detention for more than a year Politicians from the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union have sent a letter to Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn urging the release of British citizen Andargachew “Andy” Tsege, a political activist who has been
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The Foreign Office has pushed for consular access to Andargachew Tsige with no tangible results, since the British citizen was abducted in Ethiopia a year ago The UN has demanded the immediate release of a Briton held on death row in Ethiopia for more than a year, an intervention that campaigners say exposes Britain’s poor
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By Owen Bowcott | The Guardian Foreign secretary condemns detention of Andargachew Tsige in solitary confinement with no access to consular help or right to appeal The treatment of a Briton on death row in Ethiopia is threatening to undermine the country’s relationship with the UK, the foreign secretary has warned. In an unusually blunt
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