{"id":274137,"date":"2019-04-26T22:41:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T02:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEFhPwXBdu8J2_I-F4tobsLAqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4OH9CjCg6_UCMJ-42gU?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:41:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:41:22","slug":"amnesty-make-justice-a-priority-in-ethiopias-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274137","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty: make justice a priority in Ethiopia\u2019s transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, Amnesty International argued that Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early releases, law redrafts, and arrests of some officials still fell short of victims\u2019 needs for truth, justice, and reparations in Ethiopia\u2019s transition.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-354823\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Amnesty: make justice a priority in Ethiopia\u2019s transition\" \/>\n<p>More than sixty senior figures had been charged over torture or corruption by end-2018, and the Legal Advisory Council talked of rewriting the Charities and Societies rules and the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation. Amnesty said that was not enough while hate speech and ethnic clashes spread.<\/p>\n<p>A reconciliation law without victim-centered accountability risks becoming another elite bargain. Some suspects faced court; others kept careers as if the past were a closed drawer.<\/p>\n<p>As rights archive, the Amnesty call still reads clean. Transitions that skip justice often recycle violence under new party names, including Abiy Ahmed\u2019s Prosperity Party project that followed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/campaigns\/2019\/04\/make-justice-a-priority-in-ethiopias-transition\/\">Amnesty International<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/ethiopia\/make-justice-priority-ethiopias-transition\">ReliefWeb<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make Justice a Priority in Ethiopia&#8217;s Transition &#8211; Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;ReliefWebEnglish Analysis on Ethiopia about Protection and Human Rights and IDPs; published on 26 Apr 2019 by Amnesty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":354823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=1023%2C583&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19jz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601449,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274137\/revisions\/601449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}