ETHIOPIA

LESSONS IN REPRESSION: VIOLATIONS OF
ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN ETHIOPIA

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Table of Contents

Ethiopia: Timeline of Key Events and Assaults on Academic Freedom Since 1991

I. Summary

II. Recommendations

To Government of Ethiopia:
To the AAU administration:
To international donors:

III. Background

Governance in Ethiopia
Targeting the Educated

IV. Suppression of Student Activism

Oromia 2002
Student Protests
Subsequent Arrests
AAU Student Strike, April 2001
Student Demonstration and Violent Security Force Crackdown
Subsequent Arrests
Harassment of Oromo University Students
Pattern of Excessive Force in Response to Political Protests
Impunity of Security Forces

V. Denial of Teachers' Freedom of Association

VI. Chilling Free Expression and Free Opinion in Universities

University Professors
Continued Denial of Students' Rights

VII. International Response

VIII. Ethiopia: A Case Study of Violations of Academic Freedom

Freedom to Hold and Express Opinions
Self-Censorship
Freedom of Association
University Autonomy
Excessive Use of Force and Arbitrary Arrests in Repressing Demonstrations

IX. Conclusion

X. Acknowledgments