SOCEPP: The regime in power in Addis Abeba has become adept at using its controlled courts to deny due process to all illegally detained political prisoners. Its favorite ploy is to give extended time to the police to present their cases and thus a prisoner can pass months without his case being heard properly. It broad sweep anti terror law makes any dissent criminal and terrorist and gives the police and the courts to detain anyone for months without any due process. The recent examples are the nine bloggers and journalists and Andargatchw Tsige the secretary of the Ginbot 7 movement who was months ago practically kidnapped at Sana’a airport and handed over to the Addis Abeba regime that has yet to charge and try him in court. Read More…