1.0 link 56553 <![CDATA[Human Rights in Ethiopia: Another Casualty of the "War on Terror"?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/human-rights-in-ethiopia-_b_56553.html An Ethiopian court sentenced 35 opposition politicians and activists to life in prison on Monday, AP reports. The prosecution had asked for the death penalty against the defendants, who included Ethiopia's top opposition leaders.

Those sentenced to life imprisonment include the leader of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy, Hailu Shawel; Berhanu Nega, who was elected mayor of Addis Ababa; former Harvard scholar Mesfin Woldemariam; and former U.N. special envoy and former Norfolk State University professor, Yacob Hailemariam.

Human rights groups...

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