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Police in Ethiopia beg public to snitch on LGBTQ+ people in anti-homosexuality crackdown
TikTok videos outing & telling people to kill LGBTQ+ people have proliferated as conditions worsen in Ethiopia.
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Judge orders US to return illegally deported gay asylum seeker before he’s killed
ICE deported him to Africa before his case had been heard. It may be too late to bring him back now.
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Ethiopia leaders oppose Obama’s stance on gay rights
“Oppose the president if he raises the gay issue here,” said the Ethiopian Orthodox Church-linked Weyiniye Teklehaimanot Association.
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Leader of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church vows to fight homosexuality ‘to the end’
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — In his Easter message this week, Patriarch Abune Mathias, head of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church, vowed to fight homosexuality, saying it will bring destruction to the world.
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Planned anti-gay rally in Ethiopia is cancelled
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — A planned anti-gay rally that would have made Ethiopia the latest African country to demonize gays has been cancelled, officials said Wednesday.
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Africa’s anti-gay movement spreads to Ethiopia
ADDIS ABBA, Ethiopia — Two groups in Ethiopia said Thursday that they will hold an anti-gay demonstration later this month, a move that puts Ethiopia in line to become the next African country to increase the public demonization of gays.
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Ethiopia to allow mass anti-gay protests to alert society to ‘homosexual agenda’
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Addis Ababa’s municipality on Tuesday approved a mass anti-gay protest to be held in Ethiopia’s capital and throughout the country later this month, according to the Ethiopian Reporter.
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U.S. immigration officials free gay Ethiopian man pending asylum request
BOSTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in Boston have released 19-year-old gay Ethiopian man who was facing deportation back to his home country where knowledge that he is gay could land him in prison.
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Ethiopia proposes to make homosexual acts a non-pardonable offense
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Lawmakers in Ethiopia are expected to pass into law a bill that would make same-sex acts a non-pardonable offense.
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Gay Ethiopian faces persecution, prison if deported from the U.S.
BOSTON, Mass. — Federal immigration officials in Boston are seeking to deport a 19-year-old gay Ethiopian man, where he is likely to be persecuted and imprisoned.