Afaan Oromo in DC Office of Human Rights Language Access

Afaan Oromo in DC Office of Human Rights Language Access

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Participants of the event from various immigrant communities in DC

July 1, 2014, WASHINGTON, D.C. (ayyaantuu) – On Saturday June 21, 2014 the DC Office of Human Rights (OHR) convened a multilingual community dialogue and resource fair where about 100 diverse limited and non-English proficient residents made recommendations for strengthening Language Access in the District. The recommendations were the result of two-hour simultaneous roundtable discussions that took place in 10 different languages. As the second installment in a series of events hosted by OHR to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of the DC Language Access Act, this unique community dialogue supplemented report findings from an Urban Institute study released in April, with direct community feedback on Language Access implementation over the last 10 years directly from the intended users.

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No country for Ethiopian Activists? The growing danger of illegal rendition in the region

No country for Ethiopian Activists? The growing danger of illegal rendition in the region

Andargachew Tsige, Secretary General of Ginbot 7, detained in Yemen while in transit

July 1, 2014 (The Gulele Post) — Asylum, Citizenship and western passport seems to no longer protecting Ethiopia’s opposition leaders and human rights advocates from being illegally renditioned by regional and neighboring countries. Neighboring governments and humanitarian agencies are not doing enough to protect refugees who sought protection, while Western countries failing to stand up for those whom they  granted asylum and citizenship.

Bashir Makhtal, an Ogadeni businessman and Canadian citizen was arrested by Kenyan security and sent  to Ethiopia in 2006. Accused of membership to the Ogaden National Liberation Front, Mukhtal  was sentenced to life in prison in 2009 where he still languishes. Although Canadian authorities appealed for  his release, the Ethiopian regime has ignored it because the appeal was not back with any serious threat of economic or political sanction.

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Kenya Police arrest An Ethiopian Assailant

Kenya Police arrest An Ethiopian Assailant

By Ahmed Abdi | July 1, 2014

Idiris Ali Qoys, An Ethiopian who conducted several assassination missions in Kenya remain hiding and in the run

Kenya Police detained and transferred an Ethiopian assailant to Kenyan prison of Kilimani on Monday less than a month after an Ogadeni taxi driver,Abdirashid Ali Bashir, in Garissa city was injured by Ethiopian contractors armed with pistols that immediately identifies as Deeq Mohammoud Doys and Idiris Ali Qoys, the Ogaden news online (Ogaden24.com) reported.

Deeq was arrested while he was in a hospital in Nairobi at Hurlingham where he has been hospitalizing . According to eyewitnesses the assailants were five men in number that the Police immediately identified both their names and faces after they had arrested Deeq, who had been accidentally injured and left the scene by his fellow Ethiopian assailants that got panic.

While Kenyan police arrested one of the perpetrators, Deeq, Mr. Qoys who is believed to behind several assassination missions in Kenya remain hiding and on the run .

The assailant was eventually transferred to Garrissa city, where he will face on gang and charges of cross border criminal activities.

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