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PUNTLAND: PERSECUTION OF AND TRADING IN REFUGEES FROM THE OGADEN:  ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL

 

BASHIR AHMED MAKHTAL: ADDIS ABABA COURT’S SENTENCE: A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE 

 

 

BASHIR AHMED MAKHTAL: ETHIOPIAN COURT’S CONVICTION IS TRAVESY OF JUSTICE  

 
SOMALILAND AND PUNTLAND: OUTBIDDING EACH OTHER ON THE MALTREATMENT AND REPATRIATION OF SOMALIS FROM THE OGADEN
 
OGADEN: EHIOPIAN COURT’S SENTENCES ARE MOCKERY OF JUSTCE
 
PUNTLAND: PERSCUTES AND REPATRIATES REFUGEES FROM THE OGADEN
 
ETHIOPIA: TRACKS DOWN REFUFGEES FROM THE OGADEN FOR
FORCIBLE REPATRIATON
 
ETHIOPIA: ATTEMPTS TO RENDER MEANINGLESS THE UN
MISSION’S WORK IN THE OGADEN
 
Ethiopia and the State of Democracy: Effects on Human Rights and
Humanitarian Conditions in the Ogaden and Somalia
 
ETHIOPIA: EMERGENCY AID MUST REACH ITS INTENDED
BENEFICIARIES IN THE OGADEN
 
OGADEN: ETHIOPIA EXPELS THE ICRC A POTENTIAL CREDIBLE
EYEWITNESS
 
OGADEN: TERROR, EXTRAJUDICAIL KILLINGS AND MASS ARRESTS
 
OGADEN: OVERSEAS OIL COMPANIES EXACERBATE AN ALREADY PRECARIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION
 
KENYA ILLEGALLY ARRESTS AND RENDERS OGADEN SOMALIS TO ETHIOPIAN MILITARY IN SOMALIA
 
OGADEN: TRADITIONAL LEADERS’ PEACE INITIATIVE AND THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS
 
Press Release: Self-declared Republic of Somaliland:
Persecution, intimidation, detentions and torture of Somalis from the Ogaden unabated
 
Self-declared Republic of Somaliland: Seeks recognition and favour through detentions, torture, confiscation of property. and forced repatriation of Somalis.  
 
OGADEN: DOZENS OF PEOPLE AND THOUSANDS OF ANIMALS STARVE TO DEATH ON A DAILY BASIS AMID INTERNATIONAL LACK OF ATTENTION
 
Humanitarian Situation in the Ogaden  
 

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Date: November 14th 2009

Ref: OHRC/PR02/1109

 

PRESS RELEASE

ETHIOPIA: HASSAN AHMED MAKHTAL: LATEST VICTIM OF INSTITUTIONALISED TORTURE

Article 2 of the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment states that: "Each State party shall take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture. An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture."

Common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 prohibits torture during internal armed conflict. States are also required to bring those responsible for torture to justice and to give redress and compensation to those who have been tortured.

Article 18(1) of the Ethiopian Constitution states that: “No person shall be subject to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

However, in the Ogaden, there is neither arrest nor interrogation without torture. Usually, Ethiopian armed and security forces systematically torture detainees to extract confessions or information under duress. A number of people were tortured to death. The OHRC has examined a large number of torture survivors; some of them were disabled, while others bore scars of torture on their bodies.

The latest victim of Ethiopian government’s institutionalized torture was Hassan Ahmed Makhtal who died from wounds sustained during his detention.

On May 17th 2007, in Jigjiga, Ethiopian security forces and the local police arrested Hassan Ahmed Makhtal and a number of his relatives from their residences in the dead of night. And then they were transferred to Garabcase military barracks and Jigjiga Police Centre. According to ex-jail mates and relatives’ accounts they have undergone severe physical and psychological torture. Hassan, who was in a poor state of health, was denied adequate medical treatment while he was in detention. (See Ogaden: Ethiopian Government Forces: Massacre, displace and starve out the civilian population with impunity ref: OHRC/AR/07).

Recently, after 22 months of detention without official charges or trial he was released on bail, and was not allowed to travel abroad for medical treatment.

 

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OGADEN: ETHIOPIAN GOVERNMENT FORCES : MASSACRE, DISPLACE AND STARVE OUT THE CIVILIAN POPULATION WITH IMPUNITY

MASS KILLINGS IN THE OGADEN:
DAILY ATROCITIES AGAINST CIVILIANS BY THE ETHIOPIAN ARMED FORCES

 

 

Ogaden: Downtroden and Disenfranchised People.  

 

OGADEN: GRAVEYARD OF RIGHTS  

 
OGADEN:
AN ENDLESS HUMAN TRAGEDY
 
 
OGADEN: NO RIGHTS, NO DEMOCRACY