Andy Tsege has now been detained for nearly two years without trial.
Alan White
Alan White
BuzzFeed News Reporter, UK
A petition signed by 130,000 people calling for a British man be released from death row in Ethiopia will be handed in to Downing Street on Tuesday.
Andy Tsege, a father of three from north London, was snatched by Ethiopian security forces at an airport in Yemen while waiting for a flight to Eritrea in June 2014. He is accused by the Ethiopian government of plotting a coup, but campaigners say that he’s being detained because he exposed government corruption. He has alsospoken to the US Congress and the EU’s Committee on Human Rights about the current regime’s poor human rights record.
Behind the scenes, the UK’s Foreign Office has been lobbying for Tsege’s release. But the British government has yet to formally ask Ethiopia – a valuable trading partner – for his release, prompting criticism from Tsege’s family.
Source: Buzz Feed
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