[Al Ahram] Æthiopia's most prominent opposition figure, Jawar Mohammed, and 23 other people have been charged with terrorism-related offenses, telecom fraud and other criminal activities, the attorney general's office announced Saturday.
The office said they will appear in court on Monday. The charges relate to deadly violence that erupted in July in parts of the capital, Addis Ababa, and the Oromia region after the killing of singer Hachalu Hundessa, a prominent voice in anti-government protests that led to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed coming to power in 2018. Authorities said over 180 people were killed in the July unrest.
Jawar, a media mogul-turned-politician, has huge support among youth in the Oromia region and returned to Æthiopia after Abiy came to power and urged exiles to come home amid sweeping political reforms that led to him receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Oromo make up Æthiopia's largest ethnic group but had never held the country's top post until they helped bring Abiy to power. Now ethnic tensions and intercommunal violence are posing a growing challenge to his reforms.
Jawar has been fiercely critical of the Æthiopian leader over the postponement of the general election once planned for August because of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic. The government's mandate expires late next month, and a new election date has not been set.
Jawar has been detained since the July unrest. His lawyers have repeatedly asserted he was locked up because of his political views and have called for his release. Human rights groups have warned that such arrests show that Abiy's political reforms are slipping.
Youth in Oromia have staged a number of recent protests calling for the release of political prisoners, including one in late August that left "scores" of people dead, according to the Æthiopian Human Rights Commission and witnesses who spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
Abiy in a opinion piece published this week in The Economist wrote that "individuals and groups, disaffected by the transformations taking place, are using everything at their disposal to derail them. They are harvesting the seeds of inter-ethnic and inter-religious division and hatred." He rejected "dangerous demagogues."
The prime minister also acknowledged alleged abuses by security forces during the bouts of unrest, saying that "given the institutions we have inherited, we realize that law-enforcement activities entail a risk of human-rights violations and abuse.'' Security reforms take time, he said.
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[Al Ahram] A seismic survey that is planned by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... in the Eastern Mediterranean represents a "violation and attack on sovereign rights," a statement by the foreign ministry said, further escalating tensions between the two countries.
In an official statement on Saturday, foreign ministry front man Ahmed Hafez said that Egypt objects to a seismic survey carried out by Turkey from 21 July to 2 August, saying it overlaps with Egypt’s exclusive economic zone.
Hafez said the encroachment violates the UN convention on the Law of the Sea and international law.
The statement added that Egypt does not recognise any outcomes or implications that may entail from Turkey’s activity in the area of overlap.
Turkey’s announcement of the planned survey has stirred a dispute with Greece and Cyprus over drilling rights, with Athens stressing it will do "whatever is necessary" to defend its sovereign rights in response to Ankara’s planned move.
Turkey said it could pause the oil-and-gas research mission pending talks.
Egypt, a close ally to Greece and Cyprus, has had strained relations with Turkey since the 2013 ouster of Egypt’s late Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, a close ally of Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
Relations further deteriorated recently over Turkey’s intervention in Libya and a signalled military intervention by Egypt in the war-torn country.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt denounced on Saturday statements by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... regarding the country’s political developments in connection with the 30 June revolution, describing the Ottoman Turkish comments as "preposterous claims."
In an official statement, Egypt’s foreign ministry front man Ahmed Hafez slammed a TV interview that aired on Wednesday on CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... Turk with Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who addressed in a negative manner the developments in Cairo following the ouster of late Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
Hafez said the statements by Cavusoglu showed a continued adherence to "preposterous claims to serve ideological purposes."
The Egyptian ministry front man affirmed Egypt’s full rejection of Turkey’s approach, noting that discussions about Egypt in "such a negative tone, and at the same time with such contradiction, casts doubt on claims that there is a willingness to create an atmosphere for good relations based on respect and commitment to the rule of international legitimacy."
Egypt has had strained relations with Turkey since the 2013 ouster of Morsi, who was a close ally of Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
Tensions between the two countries escalated in the past months over Ankara's military intervention in war-torn Libya, its violation of Iraq's illusory sovereignty, as well as Ankara's hunt for gas in the Eastern Mediterranean in violation of the territorial waters of Greece and Cyprus, two close allies of Egypt.
Conflict further heightened after Egypt and Greece signed a maritime demarcation deal in August establishing an exclusive economic zone between the two countries, sparking an angry response from Turkey.
Ankara said at the time that Turkey considers the agreement to be null and void, and that the area falls within the borders of Turkey's continental shelf.
The Egyptian ministry’s statement comes days after the Ottoman Turkish foreign minister criticised during the interview with the Ottoman Turkish broadcaster the situation in Egypt following the ousting of Morsi and the dispersal of the pro-Islamist protests camps of Rabaa and Nahda in 2013.
Cavusoglu hinted that his country offered to sign a maritime jurisdiction agreement with Egypt, similar to a controversial agreement it made with Libya.
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.@GoFundMe deplatformed a fundraiser for protective vests launched by a black conservative who was stabbed by an Antifa militant—but it still allows an Antifa version with over $36,000 raised to remain up. https://t.co/Jr4skvnLlW
Trump supporter Andrew Duncomb was brutally attacked with a 7-inch blade that impaled his lower right flank at a Portland protest in July. The suspected assailant, Antifa agent and convicted pedophile Blake David Hampe, was released from jail last month by an unnamed Antifa bail group after his Jul. 25 arrest for felony assault.
Hampe's bail was set to $250,000. The Post Millennial's editor-at-large Andy Ngo suspected the PDX Protest Bail Fund on GoFundMe, which is actively raking in more than $1.3 million in funding from Antifa sympathizers to cover bail and other legal expenses for violent criminal suspects arrested amid the civil unrest in Portland.
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^Answer:,/B> Software Engineers developed these social media sites. Then people like $oro$ and other leftist "progressives" Bought the owners or bought out the entities completely in order to de-Constitutionalize these platforms to fight only their stupid agendas.
Tis was done quietly. No one knew what was happening so that alternative systems could be engineered.
Dan Bongino is the only one doing something about it
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Russia, or the Ukraine, or China will probably offer them a sweet deal on parts. The only point is who they will be using them against ... considering their neighbors the T-62s are probably good enough.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Ottoman Turkish government has condemned a headline in a Greek newspaper that insults President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... , urging Athens to take action.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... 's foreign ministry had already summoned Greece's ambassador over the headline in Dimokratia newspaper, also available on its website.
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The headline "Siktir Git Mr. Erdogan", which means "f*** off" in Ottoman Turkish, appears next to a photo of the president in the Greek newspaper, which also added the English translation.
"I condemn in the strongest terms the publication of insults directed at our President... on the front page of an extreme right newspaper," Fahrettin Altun, communications director at the Ottoman Turkish presidency, wrote in a letter to Greek government front man Stelios Petsas made public on Saturday.
He urged Greece to bring to account those responsible for the "shameless" action.
"Insulting a foreign leader is nothing but a sign of helplessness and lack of reason and does not fall within the scope of press freedom or freedom of expression," he said.
The Greek foreign ministry had said on Friday freedom of expression was fully protected in the EU member country but added: "The use of offensive language is contrary to our country's political culture and can only be condemned."
The two NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... countries are already locked in a heated dispute over energy exploration in contested waters in the eastern Mediterranean.
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The world community should oppose the #US' use of sanctions to impose its will as a "bully," or expect to face sanctions itself, #Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
