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Ethiopia's anti-Terrorism Law and Its Political Implications

Ethiopia is a geostrategically important ally in the West’s efforts to battle extremism in the Horn of Africa. Western leaders have also emphasized its progress in battling poverty. [But] Ethiopia’s recent prosecution of opponents under an antiterror law has attracted widespread condemnation.

Double standards?

This dynamic makes it unlikely that Western concerns will alter thinking on the terror law, which Meles said this week is copied “word-for-word” from the West’s own statute books. In parliament, he berated the West for double standards over Ethiopia’s criminalization of the media, using the treatment of WikiLeaks‘ Julian Assange and Britain’s phone-hacking journalists to illustrate his point.

—read more @CS Monitor

Posted 3 months ago

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Tags: Africa, Anti-Terrorism Law, Authoritarianism, Ethiopia, Terrorism, PM Meles Zenawi, Extraterritoriality,
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