April 4, 2016
Temesegen Desalegn is a prominent young Ethiopian journalist born on this day, 1971 (EthC.). It means he is 37 years old.
At this young age his untiring efforts to establish a creditable news magazine in Ethiopia is indefatigable and admirable. When the regime blocks one he opens another. He has managed at least four news magazines one after another. He exhausted the patience of our tormentors completely. Finally they resorted to the only thing they know: jail and torment.
In any other country, Temesgen would have been a recipient of many awards for his steadfastness as a journalist, for his loyalty to truth and for his commitment to Ethiopia and the Ethiopian people. Under the present regime in Ethiopia all these virtues are crimes punishable by inhumanly harsh treatment in jail. Iskindir Nega is another of the many journalists that is suffering in jail.
When they feel like it they place him in solitary confinement, in effect a form of psychological torture. His jailors have persistently refused to take him to a doctor, tantamount to physical torture. It is with him under such conditions that we are celebrating his birthday.
Now I hear another bad news: Temesgen’s mother who has suffered with him for so long is sick. Let us, those of us who can, help her to reduce her physical and psychological pain. May God visit the family with his mercy.
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