Earlier this week, we noted reports that Ethiopian invaders in Somalia had killed several moderate clerics and other unarmed people in a mosque north of Mogadishu during the recent bloody reprisals against civilian areas launched by the Bush-backed invaders and their Somali allies. At the time, sketchy reports from the BBC indicated that at least 10 people had been killed in the mosque.

Amnesty International

PRESS RELEASE
25 April 2008
Posted to the web 25 April 2008 

Amnesty International refutes statements made by the Ethiopian government on its report about a raid on the Al Hidya Mosque in Mogadishu on 19 April 2008. In the attack, Ethiopian forces killed at least 21 people, including 11 unarmed civilians inside the mosque, and detained at least 40 children and youths, aged 9 to 18. At least 10 others were killed by Ethiopian forces in the vicinity of the mosque. More on Somalia: Deliberate Killing of Civilians Is a War Crime

On Tuesday the case of Teddy Afro was adjourned to next Tuesday by the kangaroo court of Ethiopia (Woyann ) .

Teddy Afro was sent back to jail, again on alleged hit-and-run charges and denied to be released on bail on Tuesday.

We Ethiopian advocacy council believe in our court system here in the USA, where its citizen are protected according to their constitutional rights, but now we deal with a country where its government can implements any law it chooses at any given moment. . More on The Ethiopian Somali advocacy council demands the immediate release of the Ethiopian pop star Teddy Afro.

By Obang Metho

The response to the call for an Ethiopian rally for Freedom and Justice on May 15-18, 2008 has been overwhelming! I have heard from Ethiopians in thirteen countries and in over thirty cities within these countries, all voicing their desire to participate. Just to name a few we heard from Tel Aviv to Toronto, from London to Los Angeles, from Addis Ababa to Amsterdam, from Stockholm to Johannesburg and from Zurich to Sydney. More on Response to May 15 rally