Eskinder Nega Quotes
I was arrested in September 2011 and detained for nine months before I was found guilty in June 2012 under Ethiopia's overly broad Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, which ostensibly covers the 'planning, preparation, conspiracy, incitement and attempt' of terrorist acts.
Nega, Eskinder. "Letter From Ethiopia's Gulag." The New York Times, 24 July 2013, p. A23.
Matus had written an expose entitled the Black Book of Chilean Justice. The government not only banned the book, but jailed the Publisher and Chief Editor of the publishing company.
After the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat hundreds of Egyptian religious fundamentalists were rounded up, jailed and tortured. al-Zawahiri broke under torture and revealed the names of some of his anti-government associates. Although he was not personally involved in the murder of Sadat, he served three additional years in jail. Motivated by has thirst for revenge at his torturers and his guilt at having been forced to betray his friend, he learned all he could about terrorism from the older Jihadists also in the same jail, and when he was released he elevated Islamic terrorism to another level by developing a strategy for the use of suicide bombers.
The sheriff not only operated chain gangs in the 1990's but also had female prisoners chained together doing road work.
Eskinder Nega is an Ethiopian journalist, blogger and politician who has been jailed at least 10 times by the Ethiopian government on convictions for treason and terrorism.
