Ethiopia: Key Rights Groups Suspended

By Human Rights Watch

(Nairobi) – Ethiopian authorities have shut down two more prominent human rights organizations in recent weeks as part of their escalating crackdown against civil society, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately rescind the decision and stop targeting independent voices.In late December 2024, the Ethiopian Authority for Civil Society Organizations, a government body that oversees civil society groups, suspended the Ethiopian Human Rights Council, the country’s oldest independent human rights organization, and the Ethiopian Human Rights Defenders Center,…

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