e-626 (Ethiopia)
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the House of Commons
- According to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, State security forces in Ethiopia have used excessive and lethal force against largely peaceful protests, which has resulted in hundreds of protesters killed and thousands injured across the country;
- According to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, Members and leaders of opposition parties as well as protesters summarily rounded up and executed;
- According to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, thousands of innocent Ethiopians, men women and youth, mainly from the Amhara and Oromia regions, are continuously subject to violent persecution, torture, arbitrary deportation or detention in concentration camps;
- In response to the on-going crackdown, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, has called for access for independent observers to the country to assess the human rights situation with Ethiopia’s government rejecting this call; and
- This crisis left unchecked, is escalating to a humanitarian catastrophe.
- Open for signature
- October 27, 2016, at 10:12 a.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- February 24, 2017, at 10:12 a.m. (EDT)