(CPJ/IFEX): On 7 June 1998, at approximately 8.30 pm, Tesfaye Tadesse, the owner and editor of the magazine “Mestawet” and the newspaper “Lubar” (both presently out of circulation), was murdered in front of his residence. He was stabbed and hacked to death by two unidentified individuals using a knife and a machete. The attackers escaped […]
(CPJ/IFEX): On 7 June 1998, at approximately 8.30 pm, Tesfaye Tadesse, the
owner and editor of the magazine “Mestawet” and the newspaper “Lubar” (both
presently out of circulation), was murdered in front of his residence. He
was stabbed and hacked to death by two unidentified individuals using a
knife and a machete. The attackers escaped the scene of the crime in a DX
Toyota. CPJ sources believe that Tesfaye’s murder may be politically
motivated.
Tesfaye, a lawyer by training, was also an activist and a member of the
Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO). He was previously jailed by Meles
Zenawi’s Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) when Gebre
Igziabher, a member of the leadership committee of the opposition Ethiopian
Peoples Revolutionary Party (EPRP), was murdered in Addis Ababa in mid 1993.
Recommended Action
Send appeals to authorities:
Tesfaye Tadesse
Political Rights
Appeals To
His Excellency Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
Office of the Prime Minister
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Fax: +251 1 55 20 30
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