makhtal.org

  • Increase font size
  • Default font size
  • Decrease font size
Home media coverge

media coverge

E-mail Print PDF

 

 

 

Bashir Makhtal - Coverage on The Current

 

 CBC Radio ......Into the Darkness

 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

-

Hundreds `held' in secret jails

Lawyer fears Toronto man among detainees from 19 countries transferred to Ethiopia as part of CIA and FBI terrorism hunt
Apr 04, 2007 04:30 AM

Toronto man sent back to Somalia in chains

Deported from Kenya; accused of links to Ethiopian separatist group
 

Jan 22, 2007 04:30 AM

Canada pushes for access to detainee

We know' ex-Toronto resident Makhtal is held in Ethiopia, Foreign Affairs says

Apr 05, 2007 04:30 AM

Are U.S. agents putting the heat on Canadian?

Lawyer, family say man among suspects interrogated at secret prisons
Apr 04, 2007 06:22 AM

Ethiopian envoy silent on deported Canadian 

Refuses to admit to lawyer that man is being detained in his country
Mar 28, 2007 04:30 AM
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

 

Canadian convicted of terrorism in Ethiopia fears death penalty

July 28, 2009

Canadian convicted of terrorism in Ethiopia fears death penalty

July 27, 2009

Canada seeks clemency for Canadian facing death penalty in Ethiopia

August 01, 2009

Protecting our own

August 01, 2009

Cannon will pursue clemency in Makhtal case

August 02, 2009

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

How a business trip imperilled a man's life

Saturday, Aug. 01, 2009 01:06PM EDT

 

No end to ordeal of jailed Canadian

Jul. 29, 2009 02:51AM EDT

 

Canadian convicted in Ethiopian court

 Jul. 27, 2009 09:10PM EDT

Last Updated on Sunday, 02 August 2009 17:45  


PRESS RELEASE: Ethiopia – IHRC condemns sentencing of Canadian citizen today in Ethiopian high court

03 August 2009 

PRESS RELEASE: Ethiopia – IHRC condemns sentencing of Canadian citizen today in Ethiopian high court

The Islamic Human Rights Commission condemns today’s sentencing of Ethiopian-born Canadian citizen Bashir Ahmed Makhtal in Ethiopia’s high court. Makhtal was awarded a life-sentence for his alleged membership to the ONLF (Ogaden National Liberation Front), a group which is fighting for autonomy in Ethiopia’s Eastern Ogaden region[1]. Makhtal has fervently denied this charge, at one point telling the court, “in fact, I am the victim of the ONLF”. IHRC is deeply concerned over the trial’s numerous and grave irregularities, which would fail to meet even the most minimum of international human rights standards.

Read more...